that'll do it...
Posted on 11/30/2016 7:19:55 PM PST by PilotDave
MEDELLIN, Colombia – The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of the doomed flight.
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that'll do it...
Every time.
Turd world problems.
How could this happen?
That is the right question!
Yikes. Running out of fuel in the mountains?
Sabotage or gross incompetence in loading fuel or inspecting fuel system integrity. No commercial flight should ever run out of fuel. Running out of fuel in the mountains leads me to believe option 1.
In bad weather, at night. Oof.
Sounds like that movie called Alive
The airline should be bombed by F15 strikers. What murder that was.
yup, the one thing you can count on when you run out of fuel in a plane, you also run out of air
Yep. Like the Skynard accident this will go down as one of the worst examples of pilot error in the history of aviation.
When this story broke I figured it would be gross pilot error. But to run out of fuel? Beyond stupid... unthinkable.
Well, there’s always the Gimli Glider. No fuel, and everyone survived.
On the other hand, they had a bit more preparation and room than this flight.
Checklists? We don’t need no stinkin’ checklists!
And daylight, and good wx, and flatlands, and a runway close by.
Happen in Canada 1983 .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
From the looks of the crash, it did not appear there were much of any flames.... Which if they were on empty would give credibility to this thought.
Pictures of the team getting on board and before take off.
The plane had the club logo on it; so it was the club’s plane itself? I know fuel gauges should be checked and are accurate but something went very wrong here.
It’s unfathomable and shocking.
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