Pilot Refuses to Declare Emergency / Avianca Flight 52 Runs Out of Fuel
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Air Lines' Procedure for Minimum Fuel Operation Was Not That Great
So they entered their third holding pattern at eight 18 p m, this was when they were about 39 miles south of jof k. The crash didn't happen till nine. 34 p m, oh. That that' an hour and 16 minutes later, on top of what do we say, like the forty nine minutes earlier? So they ad held for probably over two hours at that point. Ye, so it's not like they had to hold unexpectedly and then they crashed immediately. And they had opportunity to to save this multiple times. You know, they should have made their fuel calculations when they had about 17 thousand pounds of fuel remaining when they started their descent from flight level three, seven
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