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Old 19th Jun 2008, 03:09
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PLovett
 
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Not as if there was any fuel to catch fire
I watched the program last night and I got the impression that the crew didn't know that the aircraft had run out of fuel. Their gauges were inoperative from the outset and as far as they were concerned they thought they had enough for the flight.

Something I wasn't sure of at the end was whether it was the crew or the refueller who made the mistake in converting weight to quantity. I understand that the problem was someone converted pounds to gallons instead of kilos to gallons but who?

I would have thought the crew would have done the conversion rather than leaving it up to a refueller but from the program it looked like the refuller did the conversion.
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