What the hell is going on?

[Major Stare]

A plane crashed this week in Canada,

and now this today... Tunisia jet sea crash

and this just happened...

Plane crash-lands in city street

 

[Jed]

Just read the Cessna one :

Those aircraft carry about eight litres of fuel and it's pretty volatile fuel,

Eeek - that's less than a Westfield holds.  Must be some special stuff then.        

[oldman]

There wos another one 5 minutes ago.......I chucked me Stanley plane at the wall after another bodge job  

[alan dixon]

Always happens in 3's, must be safe to fly now    

[bhouse]

That 8 litres of fuel nonsense... A national broadcaster should not put 'facts' in a bulleting unless they've been checked. If fact a Cessna 150/152 holds just under 150 litres and the fuel is basically 98 octane petrol. If they only had 8 litres remaining then that's why they landed away from an airfield as the final 12/20 litres can't be picked up by the fuel lines.

Brian

[neilb]

Just read the Cessna one :

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Those aircraft carry about eight litres of fuel and it's pretty volatile fuel,

Eeek - that's less than a Westfield holds.  Must be some special stuff then.        

8 Litres that counts as empty c150 burns about 4 gallons / hour so 8 l would just about get you off the ground

[Major Stare]

Just been out in my Citreon C5 1.8 petrol company car, I think its suffering a fuel problem like the Cessna.

Just put £15.00 in the car as it was reading 25miles left in the tank. Do a 19.7mile round trip and its now reading 21miles in the tank remaining. So thats about 7miles/gallon