Originally Posted by
Brickhut
Lattest scuttlebut is bad fuel. Story I heard is that this was a rescue for another operator that apparently got some type of fuel filter bypass warning on taxi out. As I understand, they only took on the min 300 gallons to waive the ramp fee. Again, just a story I'm hearing, but seems very plausible. I think we can all agree that there was fuel on board when they crashed with how badly it burned.
I'm wondering if we're lookin at a BA38 type situation?
British Airways Flight 38 - Wikipedia
Bad fuel would have caused an issue hours ago.
BA38 is possible, not sure what the temps aloft were. On a short flight like this it just sounds implausible.
The fire isn't that violent. there is tens of liters of unusable fuel that will burn even if engines have flamed out due to fuel starvation.
We will wait and see.