Just as a matter of interest, I had a coffee with one of my friends this morning. He is a current A-340 captain. I asked him about how he would feel about landing with 800 kgs in one wing and 1200 kgs in the other wing with one engine already failed.
His first reaction was that the crew concerned had obviously forgotten to open the cross-feeds.
He also reckoned that this fuel state in an A-340 would just about allow ten minutes of flight before complete disaster.
Since two of the FR aircraft landed with 30 minutes of emergency fuel and the other one was 75 kgs short of this figure, perhaps some of you might like to comment upon the fuel planning of the LAN Chile crew?
As you all already know, LAN Chile is not really the flag carrier for their country but just another low cost carrier like FR.