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Old 9th Feb 2002, 00:58
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Seems a fair idea to have a tug waiting in such a case, but it is difficult enough to get one when you are scheduled to, let alone get one ad-hoc!

I think last nights crew were unlucky. If it was a 767, they should have had a reserve for steering that would have at least enable the runway to be vacated (obviously they thought so to!). Why that reserve wasn't available, not sure, possibly that was were the leak/fault was.

33 minutes delay - doesn't sound too bad. Usually you can get about 40-45 mins from normal flight plan fuel, but committing to a single runway, especially as there is already an on going incident - does focus the mind though. <img src="eek.gif" border="0">
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