Meikleour,
I agree 100% regarding the fuel situation and things did change as a result of the incident. To be fair to the crew, at the time, the manuals were not very clear on a couple of the finer points of the fuel system but that has been rectified and I'm confident the situation in which they found themselves would not happen nowadays.
For what it's worth, the incident shouldn't even be in this thread. I only wrote about it because of SSR's bigoted accusation of what they did was wrong, because it doesn't conform to what he would have done. The actual flight has been done to death on PPrune and it's clearly got nothing to do with flap settings, so hopefully that'll be an end to it
