Or 120mins at cruise speed, some take that as single engine, others with both donks working. They will have needed to check both Spanish and French regulations to see which interpretation they have used.
If you use 150knts single engine there is a chunk in the middle that you can't manage.
Appart from which
400NM is way over 2 hours on a single engine anyway and your only allowed 60mins none ETOPS. So realistically they could only be 160NM away from land.
Also as well your fuel burn at 6-10 K on a Garrette is over double what it is at FL 200 plus although they were proberly filed below 200 due to 8.33 requirments.
So I suspect that the routing was illegal anyway if it was a public transport flight. As I said lots of bones of contention with ops and commercial. I wouldn't accept it even if none public transport its not worth the risk.
Depending on where they had originated from and fuel load another hour on route when this occured could have been a fatal ditching thread.
Who was the operator anyway? It wasn't those clowns who had the metro on the books in the Cork crash is it?
Last edited by mad_jock; 18th November 2011 at 12:59.