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Old 3rd Mar 2009, 06:21
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Wod
 
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Not for the first time

QF has cultural form.

My dodgy memory has a 747 classic flying Bahrain-Heathrow long, long ago, and starving one engine of fuel at top Of Descent and a second (same side) on long finals.

Ultimate source deemed to be sea water in Bahrain fuel causing goo formation.

(What was the old joke as engines failed one by one - "At this rate we'll be up here forever")

Hopefully someone with more confidence in their memory will correct me if I'm wrong.
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