Originally posted by 3WE
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Fatal Aviation accidents anno 2016? - In my eyes this one sticks out. I mean, 3WE, you wrote entry #135 here in this topic, but I know that this wasn't your first one
concerning 'LaMia Flight 2933', as the English wikipedia calls it.
Sometimes pilots carry even MORE fuel that is required
Do I sit in a cockpit which is able to bring my passengers and me nonstop from my departure to the final arrival?! - If I remember the things correctly, the unexperienced airline
- founded 2015, for a flight in 2016... ! -
tried to use an Avro RJ85, for a route which never on this planet is short enough for a RJ85, if you do not perform at least 1 fuel stop!
The route? - You can correct me, but wasn't it
almost a 3,000 nautical miles route,
and they tried to fly it nonstop in a RJ85,
which you definitely MUST land after not more than 1,900 nautical miles, for a fuel stop?!
I don't know much about RJ85s. But I know one or two things about cars. You can't go from Lohausen to Fontanarossa nonstop in a 1978 Volkswagen Beetle with 34 hp. There inbetween is
at least
1 fuel stop.
Sad story, the Chapecoense story. And so very senseless, because very very very avoidable!
PS: I never had to observe the fuel in a 1978 Beetle, that was the task for my father, but now I have the facts. It needs 9.7l for 100 km, and on board is a cute little fuel tank: 40 liters.
Thus we have the max nonstop range for a 1978 Volkswagen Beetle, with indeed not more than 34 hp (!): 412 kilometers, if you are a driver who likes to search the next gas station with the last drop...
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