A couple more witnesses declared in front of the judge in charge of the investigation today. Nothing really new. You can skip this post.
The worker in charge of fueling the airplane before the RTG declared how much he put in an hour before departure, etc. He also declared that his co-worker, who was the one to later add more fuel after the RTG (and who will declare later), told him about the anti-collision lights being on while on the ground.
Nobody has strictly said what lights they were talking about, but the prior mention of this situation to the police was that he noticed the lights "on top and underneath the airplane", leading to believe that he didn't mean the wing's strobes.
It was said here by those familiar with the MD80 that those lights, as oppossed to the strobes, turn on and off only through a manual switch in the cockpit.
Having them on during the refueling while they were parked and right after the "repairs", probably only means that they never turned them off when they stopped the airplane to have it serviced.
The press, of course, is already jumping to the conclusion that the airplane was in "air mode" and that provoked the accident.
The witness also declared that he co-worker did talk to one of the pilots, who stepped outside of the airplane to give him instructions on the amount of fuel, etc.
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