This a non-event. A crew decided to stop and uplift more fuel and then continue on with their journey because they thought they needed to. The consequences of not doing so would probably have the same people who questioned why they stopped asking why they didn't.
Our conspiracy theorists should also get a life. No airline that I know of dispatches an aircraft knowingly in an uneconomic fashion. In addition, most of these big heavies (and also the little ones I fly) depart without fuel 'for mum and the kids' and arrive at their destinations will little more than they legally have to. The cost of this this an occasional tech. stop.
Last edited by Piltdown Man; 31st Mar 2014 at 18:44.
Reason: Missing "they"