Originally Posted by
EngFail
So they had the required fuel to divert? By forcing an emergency condition that supposedly did not exist and falsely invoked the fuel emergency card? This alone suggest either incompetence or malicious intent. Instead of diverting to reassess and refuel, caused extreme negative national wide publicity and has evidently precipitated another faa heightened surveillance and investigation. This is the argument used to terminate the pie captain by GB. So, the captain on site in real time exercised his judgment to rectify an imperfect situation. And did so using incomplete information and made imperfect real time decisions. The VP gets a pass, we don’t.
"We don't have enough fuel to go anywhere else," the pilot told the tower.*
"After a full and thorough review by our safety team under the direction of Gust, the following determinations of fact have been made:
Although sufficient fuel remained to divert to Grand Forks, flight 426 made the decision to declare an emergency, allowing the flight to land immediately at Fargo in order to avoid utilizing reserve fuel."
so which was it? did they or didn't they have enough fuel to divert?