We all know that what happened to the Virgin A 340 fuel problem would have been picked up by a crew that had the experience of flying the old B 747 or DC 10 with flight engineers.
Do we really? Well from what I know of the fuel problem speaking to Virgin A340 skippers it would appear that you are actually talking out of your behind. Pray tell, how would B747 Classic or DC10 experience, or indeed a flight engineer, have helped deduce that the indications on the ECAM fuel page were actually erroneous due to a second unannounced failure of a fuel management computer? Perhaps the flight engineer might have spent the flight interrogating the maintenance computer to determine the servicability of the fuel computers every hour?