Report of Dual Engine Flameout On Trans-Atlantic Flight Raises Significant Safety Issues

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...

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