I was thinking the same thing...if your fuel is being used up faster
than it should (and it seems that it was doing so at a dramatic rate
in this case!), and your engines are running normally, it would seem
that a fuel leak is the only possibility (other than an incorrect fuel
gauge).

One thing which may have contributed to this: I bet that fuel leaks
are VERY rare on commercial aircraft and so it would be one of the
last things you'd think of.

On Feb 9, 2008 4:20 PM, Cedric Chang <cc@nope9.com> wrote:
>
> 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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