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Old 17th Feb 2017, 23:11
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by button push ignored
Did they:

Run out of fuel with both engines working?
All fuel tanks were 100% dry?

Or,

They messed up the engine out procedure and starved the good engine of fuel?
Fuel remained in some tanks?
As I said, they ran out of fuel. Unless you're suggesting that the NTSB got it wrong ?

One of the reasons that 20 of the 24 passengers survived is that there was no post-crash fire, because there was no fuel left in the tanks.
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