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Old 23rd Mar 2015, 12:44
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Iron Bar
 
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OK, thanks Rose Thorns for that vaguely comprehensible contribution of, as you say, Merde.

A read of CAR 234 pretty much covers this. For both the pilot and the operator. "The pilot in command must not commence...." and "an operator must take reasonable steps to ensure..."

Sure, hold the operator to account for their failings. But those failings do not excuse the pilot in command for allowing the aircraft to be; circling an isolated aerodrome, at night, in the rain, with no fuel. Then ditching it (allegedly) without telling ANYONE where they were.

So so so lucky. Nothing more than that. (Lucky the Israelis build an enormously tough aeroplane too, Mazel tov!!)

It's not rocket science. PPL theory covers fuel planning.
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