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Old 3rd Sep 2011, 20:30
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jamesdevice
 
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the islands are 600km+ off the coast of Chile. The islands were stormbound. Any alternate airfield would presumably suffer the same weather conditions.
Your question should be whether they had enough fuel to abort and go back
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