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Old 14th January 2015 | 13:37
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clunckdriver
 
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Willoman, Yes it was, the inquiry exposed lots of dirt, from an AME refusing to sign out the aircraft {over ruled by a person further up the food chain} to the Captain simply not understanding the situation about the fuel leak,{ opened the cross feed} so he finished up pumping the fuel overboard, this in spite of the F/O aparently having a better grasp of the problem,{didnt go back and view the fuel leak location with the aid of the wing lights by the way} on top of this it transpired that the captain had a drug smugling conviction in his recent past.Its worth noting that Air Canada had an identical leak prior to this incident,{ on the way to Osaka} but handled it no problem. I belive the failure was in a fuel feed to the engine due to the fact that an L1011 part was installed instead of the correct part which was modified as the result of an AD. As is so amazing in such incidents {Gimmli Glider} the media made a hero of the Captain, go figure!
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