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Old 15th Aug 2010, 01:28
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mm43;

As a general rule, the 332 is fitted with fuel dump, the 333 is not.

That said, I agree with paull's and machinbird's comments.

Further, the jettison rate is approximately 1180kg/min. There was approximately 42.6k kg of fuel on board, - (BEA 1rst Interim Report, P.20) at LKP.

Even given a decision to dump fuel (which would have been both impractical (due time) and ineffective (there is no emergency in the QRH, and none I can think of that would require such action as an immediate need)), it is easy to calculate that there would have been a substantial amount of fuel on board at impact.

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