Totalwar,
Oh and for Bigtop....the aircraft DID NOT run out of fuel.
Mere semantics - if you don't have enough gas to get where you're going then of course you may elect to take the early decision to ditch rather than flame out. But at the end of the day they WOULD HAVE RUN OUT if endurance does not match Speed/time/distance etc.
I speak from experience - though fortunately in my case the mis-idented 'mother' was another warship and although not capable of taking us on the back end did provide a HIFR until we sorted the plot out!
Let's hope rather than a witch hunt that the lessons will be learnt and improvements made to the inadequate kit that has been alluded to in this thread to ensure it won't happen again.