Have just seen a video on the news, shot by a passenger, of a fuel leak during taxiing with which an Air Plus Comet plane from Spain to the Dominican Republic would have been quite happy to take off last monday night. The captain, alerted by his passengers, announced that the immense stream of fuel was a normal occurrence and continued taxiing. It wasn’t until the passengers rebelled that the aircraft returned to the gate.
Here’s the
stor y in Spanish, and a picture taken from the french tv channel TF1.
Let’s take our passenger’s remarks seriously!!! (One of mine once told me of a bird that was sitting on a flap, and sure enough, there it was, frozen solid, on the inside. No way to see it once the flaps were retracted…
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[ 15 August 2001: Message edited by: Gantenbein ]