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Old 21st August 2007, 09:57 PM
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Re: Lack of fuel forces Qantas jet to land in heavy fog

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Originally Posted by maninblack
And what about flights coming from the west?
Makes no difference which direction the flight is coming from. They should carry enough fuel to reach the planned destination and THEN to divert to an alternate if required. The only comments about approaching from the north or east was regarding an early decision to divert, thus saving flying all the way to PER and then looking for long enough piece of lack stuff to put it down.
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