Sunfish - this isn't necessarily a company decision. That's why we have pilots. If the company says "You choose" then it might happen all over again. If they say, please land ASAP, that may happen as well. This sort of thing is a judgement call. The outcome proves the validity of the judgement call made several hours earlier. Now, if were BA, maybe I would be putting the hard word on Boeing for a failure in the fuel system. But no matter what, I'd be spending my political penny making sure that through government channels that the Feds were told to "Go Away".
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