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Old 27th Aug 2015, 04:09
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LOMCEVAK
 
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From memory, in the MHT accident the pilot (who I knew and had flown the Hunter with) probably knew that he was short of fuel due to a change of intentions on finals and all aeroplanes have a certain amount of unusable fuel; he probably flamed out. The 2012 ATAC accident resulted from the pilot deliberately continuing the sortie following a fuel transfer failure such that he recovered with fuel in the underwing tanks on one side with empty underwing tanks the other side and he departed during the finals turn. The 2014 accident was probably the result of getting too slow in the finals turn and stalling.

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