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There's no point in waiting once you have run through the checklist and put the crash trucks in position.
by mannykannot 3y ago
There's no point in waiting once you have run through the checklist and put the crash trucks in position.
- tallanvor 3y agoUnless you want to burn fuel, but it sounds like that wasn't needed here.
- londons_explore 3y agoIf you suspect you're gonna turn into a hunk of bent metal sliding down the runway, I'd rather there only be a couple of gallons of fuel left, rather than a couple of hundred gallons.
- throwanem 3y agoIn the scale of amounts of fuel aircraft carry, 30 minutes of fuel is "a couple of gallons". You don't want enough to overstress the airframe or fuel a massive conflagration if the tanks are compromised, but you also don't want so little that you've got no buffer in case something else goes wrong, and 30 minutes at cruise (or at the near-idle power settings used on approach, it isn't clear here) is a lot less at takeoff/go-around power.
- jbverschoor 3y agoMaybe.. I’d wanna try a few more times
- pc86 3y agoEverything is done via checklists. You don't just "try a few more times" unless there's some indication that you should. They only had 30 minutes of fuel left, and if they had an unrelated go-around and ran out of fuel while setting up for another landing, everyone dies. Once you've run all the relevant checklists and ARFF is in position, you land the plane.
- jbverschoor 3y agoWell obviously if there's no fuel :)