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Stratoliner had about 50 gallons of fuel as it crashed
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
By JAMES WALLACE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to rule within days on the probable cause of last year's crash of The Boeing Co.'s one-of-a kind Stratoliner, the first commercial airplane with a pressurized cabin.
It's been clear since soon after the restored four-engine plane ditched into Seattle's Elliott Bay that it apparently ran out of gas.
The board could issue that final report late this week, although it will more likely be next week.
The Stratoliner is now being restored in a hangar across from Boeing Field.
The restoration is going well and the Stratoliner should make its public rollout at the Museum of Flight on June 14, said Boeing's Dave Knowlen, restoration manager.