Originally Posted by VH-XXX
I'll tell you exactly what happened.
The aircraft was scheduled from Brisbane to Adelaide but due to bad weather couldn't land in Adelaide so diverted towards Melbourne but did not have enough fuel thus it landed at Mildura below the safe weather minima. A failure at two levels.
One might suggest that this would be due to Virgins new fuel policy that was implemented to save fuel and thus cash...
Someone might lose their job over this. Rumour has it that the crew came close to ditching it in a paddock.
wtf? I know this is a rumour network but your story does seem a little outlandish... Crew diverting *then* realising they didnt have enough? You can pretty much glide to melbourne from toc. Or go back to adl where i dare say youd feel better landing below mins. Unless they were worried about what people would say about them on pprune if they autolanded below
