Hyperbolic fuel leak figures
A lot of posts on this thread mention vast numbers of fuel leaks.
How many are significant?
I have witnessed 3 very recently. the slowest probably leaked a few drops every 10 minutes: the worst a pint or two - which was rectified in a couple of minutes (airborne).
So whether you have been told there were 25 or 52 or 752,834 fuel leaks in the last 6 months, it is highly unlikely that many of them were dangerous. Viewing any F700 on this fleet, or other types, will show a number of places where fuel escapes - we even have diagrams of the wings so you can mark on where all the known leaks are!
If anyone has valid data on significant fuel leaks or fuel system failures I would like to see them as much as anybody else, but dont quote me random figures when most of the events spill less fuel that we all do filling up our cars at TESCO.