On Feb 9, 2008, at 11:21 AM, David VanHorn wrote:

Similar, but IMHO hairier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236


The Transat flight crew did not check for a fuel leak ?
That seems really dumb.  I cannot believe they have
so much going on while flying that they cannot watch
their fuel gauges ( tell me they do not have fuel gauges ! ).

This flight and the Gimli glider seem to me to be examples
of rogue wave phenomena.  Unpredictably ( and I stress the
word "unpredictably" , human errors add harmonically to cause
really stupid incidents.  You can only hope some smart person
is on the scene to unravel the mess.  In both these cases, some
of the perpetrators were able to be "smart" enough to avoid
total disaster.

Cedric
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