Originally Posted by Patowalker
The FPL that reached the Colombian authorities showed the flight departing from Cobijas. They only learnt it had departed from Santa Cruz when it was already in Colombian airspace.
So just to make it clear, the flight was planned to take 4:22 from Cobijas to Medellín, using up all its endurance? This smells a bit like they were lucky to even make it to the holding, seeing that they departed way further south than that.
Could somebody with access to an ARJ flight planning system run these two flights through it so we get fuel burn and EET for both? This might be interesting.