One of those times
Sometime in the early 1970s a PAA 747 enroute to JFK held and held for weather. Finally decided to go to his alternate EWR. EWR is only about 15nm as the crow flies but ATC sent him three quarters of the way to PHL before turning him toward EWR. Landings were to the SW. As he got within 15 nm of EWR he declared an emergency after running out of fuel on one or maybe two engines. He requested to land NE and was approved. The aircraft was able to leave the runway at the end, but there it sat. Out of fuel. All 4 engines were fuel starved.
He was still ther some time later when I taxied out for TO. I shuddered and got a sick feeling in my stomach as I realized what had almost happened.
BTW it was legal then to use all your fuel getting to an airport. I hope it has changed.