Non-pilot speaking
NSEU
even if all 138 gallons of ice thawed during the descent and was scavenged, would mixing it with over 3000 gallons of remaining wing tank fuel degrade the engine performance so much?
From early on in the various threads, we have been told that the CT would have been empty, long before TOD.
We have been told that the CT is used first in it's entirety. Once fuel is below the level of the main pumps and the engines fed from the wing tanks, other pumps (the scavengers?) drain the tank down and put the remaining fuel into the wings. Thus, no great body of water would exist. If I recall correctly, that is a SOP.
I sit to be corrected.