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Old 22nd Feb 2005, 22:53
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Valve Kilmer
 
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If it is true, that the BA flight landed with a total of 5 tons remaining fuel onboard, of whitch only 2 tons was usable, I certainly see why the crew stated, that a go around was ruled out.

As far as I remember, we used 200KG/MIN as a rough figure for FF in landing configuration on the -400.

Landing with less than 10 tons of fuel onboard would trigger a voyage report as well!

The decision to continue the flight on three engines, given the very few "facts" available so far, sounds safe, and completely in line with SOP
s for that A/C type, however landing with 2 tons usable fuel, could/should have concerned the crew prior MAN.

Bearcat - exactly my thoughts!
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