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Old 2nd Dec 2016, 21:11
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Originally Posted by AndyJS
The sad thing about this incident is that the one positive aspect of the crisis, namely the fact that the chances of a crash landing without loss of life due to the lack of fuel meaning that there wouldn't be an explosion, wasn't taken advantage of. I assume that a landing on relatively flat terrain would have given a pretty good chance of people surviving with there being no chance of a explosion due to the exhaustion of fuel compared to if there had been fuel.
In aircraft crashes it is not usually the "explosion of fuel" that kills people.
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