(this mailed to me by an airline pilot friend of mine. anybody aware of this incident and the involved airline?)
It recently transpired that a little "Rat Jet" / regional flamed out
both engines taxiing back to the gate in Charlotte. Ummm... = That's
affirmative...there wasn't any more fuel aboard the plane just a
coupla' minutes after touching down and clearing the runway.
Here's the punch line: The crew had taken off for a fairly short trip
without ever, actually even, as-impossible-as-this-sounds/no BS
checking the fuel aboard. It gets better....they got almost halfway
to destination prior to sagely determining that things weren't right.
The "Captain" then made the brilliant decision to forgoe sensibly
landing at whatever-tha'-fugg airport was closest...and turned the
ship back to CLT...and bucked nearly 80 knots of headwind in so doing.
It recently transpired that a little "Rat Jet" / regional flamed out
both engines taxiing back to the gate in Charlotte. Ummm... = That's
affirmative...there wasn't any more fuel aboard the plane just a
coupla' minutes after touching down and clearing the runway.
Here's the punch line: The crew had taken off for a fairly short trip
without ever, actually even, as-impossible-as-this-sounds/no BS
checking the fuel aboard. It gets better....they got almost halfway
to destination prior to sagely determining that things weren't right.
The "Captain" then made the brilliant decision to forgoe sensibly
landing at whatever-tha'-fugg airport was closest...and turned the
ship back to CLT...and bucked nearly 80 knots of headwind in so doing.