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This is a complete no-brainer, you gear-heads. Read:

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A JUMBO jet captain was forced to make an emergency landing after running low
on fuel following the mid-air failure of one of its four engines.

The British Airways flight 268, which had 351 passengers on board, was met by
a fleet of fire engines on Manchester Airport's runway 2 after the captain
made a mayday call to the control tower yesterday afternoon.

The captain first noticed a problem an hour after take-off when engine number
two on the port side of his aircraft experienced a power surge. The pilot
switched off the broken engine and continued his journey across America with
the three remaining engines.

Although he had calculated that the plane could safely make its destination,
the plane encountered some unexpected headwind over the Atlantic Ocean, which
depleted its fuel reserves further.

The pilot decided not to risk flying to Heathrow and made a mayday call asking
to land at Manchester without wasting any more fuel by waiting in the skies.

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How far is Manchester from Heathrow anyway?? If they couldn't make it even
that little bit extra overthere, I'd say they "fjucked" up.

And you be (*&#$(*&#$ sure this will affect my decision to fly BA or not, and
I would hope many other customers would feel the same.

Say I drive a car and I get a flat tyre and replace it with my (one) spare. Or
I lose my left front light, or anything else relatively minor. Am I still
safe? Sure. Would I drive across a desert without getting repairs first? No
way. And while being responsible for passengers? That's where it really
becomes a no-brainer.

Anyone who doesn't understand that should stick to flying himself in a single
seater, or, preferably, Microsoft FS.

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