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Old September 30th, 2005, 00:42   #2
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Originally Posted by Theotokos
Ok enough with the Days of Our Life. Here is a scenerio from my pre-flight school brain. I did the research on this one.

It is night and you are on the transatlantic for UPS. You are in a Boeing 777 at a cruise of FL385 when you get a low fuel warning. You glance at your fuel gages and they are normal. You are still over land so there are plenty of places to abort. Do you:

A) Assume it is just some error with the low fuel warning malfunction and fly on.
B) Abort flight and have a mechanic check it out.
Land as soon as practical before you get over a large body of water. Remember the AirTransat A330 that thought the low fuel warning was just an anomaly?

P.S. does UPS even have 777s?
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