Originally Posted by
Timbo
They have however had several MX 'turn backs', and had to dump a whole bunch of fuel over MSP and DTW to get light enough to land.
Fuel is still our number one cost. If you have to dump 200,000lbs. of it every time you have a problem and need to return, well...that gets expensive.
Are serious 747 MX problems really that frequent though? If BA can fly 6000 miles after fireballing an engine on takeoff (not that I condone such insanity, even from the world's premier aviators
) what is going on with our whales that are causing so many air returns?