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In response to "Yeah, some of those can freak you out." by ty97

In this ep, the Eastern seaboard ATC stations are teaming up to put a 707 in a series of holding patterns so long that the 707 is all but out of fuel

Posted by JD (aka Jason Dean) Mar 20 '20, 20:59

The hell?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avianca_Flight_52 (en.wikipedia.org)

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IIRC, the pilots should have called an emergency which would have let them land -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 21:01 5
- So while the investigation does make a big deal that the pilots never used the word 'Emergency', the FAA does settle to pay 40% - JD Mar 20, 22:00 1
  - If you ever get that low on fuel you should be declaring an emergency - ty97 Mar 20, 22:04
- I think this recreation favors the pilots as there's been an effort to show how many times they get handed off from a controller who - JD Mar 20, 21:09 2
  - Have you gotten to the Tenerife Disaster yet? -- nm - ty97 Mar 20, 21:32 1
    - That wasn't part of this series but I remember reading about that in Newsweek growing up and then trying to find everything I could - JD Mar 20, 21:50

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