It took a less than 70 hours of chafing for a hole to be breached in the fuel line, but only about 13 minutes for the computer systems to lead the pilots up the garden path of a fuel imbalance to total fuel exhaustion. The case involves Air Transat Flight 236, in which both engines shut down from fuel starvation on the A330 twinjet high over the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 24, 2001, forcing the pilots to glide to a…
Report of Dual Engine Flameout On Trans-Atlantic Flight Raises Significant Safety Issues
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