Wunwing, you must be flying a different brand of Boeing; always found the fuel systems to be highly reliable but then it was with well maintained aircraft.
Also had a sound idea of fuel status and if fuel down the strut did not equate to what was in, or should be in the tank, then it would be rapidly evident something was amiss able to be defined as where the problem is.
It is also what in-flight fuel management is all about; knowing what is going on, where it is going and how much there should be.
Your paragraph about various fuel configs, fuel densities, etc. is twaddle and balderdash.
DK
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