Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Air-Transat flight which lost it's rudder in cruise flight a couple years ago
Im sure it was air Transat's fault somehow

jk.
Totaly off topic here, but it reminded me of something
But seriously Air Transat is a terrible company. A few years ago one of their flights ran out of fuel. The idiot french captain noticed the fuel rapidly decreasing from the right tank. So in all his wisdom he figures if fuel is dissipearing from the right tank that he should transfer MORE fuel into it. Which in turned cause them to loose a huge amount of fuel and forced an emergancy landing. And he was rewarded for his incompetance back in quebec with a public award ceremony for "saving" all those lives.
They would have gone into the pond if earlier their route wasnt changed to a more southern one that brought them closer to the Azores
Thanks to this wonderful pilot Airbus had to put in ALL its aircraft manuals a warning for pilots to make sure it is not a fuel leak before transfering fuel