Originally Posted by
Coto Pilot
I was told that the 777 had a window heater fail and would have had to descend to 250' for the remainder of the flight. At that altitude they would not have had sufficient fuel. Hardly something to fault the pilots or dispatch for.
Forecasted winds A LOT different than forecasted on that day and the day before. We had just the required fuel to continue from the C.P. from KOA. (we were around 1500# over burn when all was said and done
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They unfortunately did not. Heard them on 123.45, they tried working it out with dispatch, but if anything went wrong where they had to descend, they were going to end up about 150 miles short off the SFO coast...