Originally Posted by
Mercenary Pilot
It suggests nothing really, how about unusable fuel?*
I think it highly unlikely the aircraft just ran out of fuel. The smell of kerosene just lends more credence to that theory.
If there was only unusable fuel left in the fuel system, it likely would not be in sufficient quantities to be smelled by people in the area of the crash.
Fuel leaking from the tanks is a more reasonable expectation.
BUT, even if the aircraft ran out of fuel, how does that explain the stall?Aircraft don't just fall out of the sky when the engines stop running.
I believe this accident has much in common with Colgan 3407 in that it appears they let the airspeed get to slow and a stall resulted.