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Plane With Brazilian Soccer Team Crashes in Colombia
An airplane with 72 people on board, including players from a Brazilian soccer team heading to Colombia for a regional tournament final, has crashed on its way to Medellin's international airport. (abcnews.go.com) Más...Fuel exhaustion/starvation in airline transport category aircraft is not all that rare. Recall Air Canada's 767 gliding to Gimli. Air Transat's Airbus gliding to the Azores. United's DC-8 fuex near Portland, OR. Avianca's 707 fuex near JFK...Lynyrd Skynyrd's Convair 240 fuex...the list goes on..
I remember the Gimli glider. Also the Air Transat incident resulted from sloppy maintenance on one of the A330's engines (wrong part number on a replacement pipe), then the drivers opened the cross-feed and thus pissed multiple tons of fuel out into the night over the Atlantic.
This sudden silence at altitude was then followed by the longest (so far) successful glide into an airfield in history - helped (IIRC) by the fact that their navigation was so sloppy that being off-course meant they were closer to Lajes than they should have been.
So sometimes, a chain of cock-ups brings a happy end - or at least acceptable (my standard is "did I walk away from that landing?"). They also failed to burst just two out of all the tyres on the undercart when they finally hit the Azores.
This sudden silence at altitude was then followed by the longest (so far) successful glide into an airfield in history - helped (IIRC) by the fact that their navigation was so sloppy that being off-course meant they were closer to Lajes than they should have been.
So sometimes, a chain of cock-ups brings a happy end - or at least acceptable (my standard is "did I walk away from that landing?"). They also failed to burst just two out of all the tyres on the undercart when they finally hit the Azores.
Once difference here is that there was a Fuel QTY MEL on the A/C and they had to manually stick the tanks. Also the request was requested in Gallons and Was Fueled in Liters. Both the Crew and the Fueler missed that error.
It is fuel exhaustion, not fuel starvation - there is a difference.
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/chapecoense-plane-crash-bolivia-arrests-lamia-airline-boss/ar-AAleXB7?li=AAggNb9&ocid=mailsignout
The airlines AOC was also revoked.....too little wayy too late