Jet panic as fuel pours from wing

[emad]

By Alistair Foster, Evening Standard
4 April 2005
Hundreds of British passengers forced their flight to be grounded after they spotted fuel pouring from a wing during take-off.

Holidaymakers screamed, refused to sit down and demanded the pilot stop the flight as the aircraft sped along a runway in the United Arab Emirates.

After a three-hour wait on the runway while engineers attempted to repair the leak, they forced the pilot to abandon a second attempt at taking off when they saw fuel was still spilling out.
The drama took place early yesterday as the Phuket Air flight from Bangkok to Gatwick stopped to refuel at Sharjah. Hundreds of passengers were stranded at the airport when they refused to reboard the plane.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/17687081?source=Evening%20Standard

[CanuckAmok]

1. more like "Phuk't Air"

n/t

[ewagner]

2. What kind of Pilot

would still insist on flying a plane with a problem like that?

I wonder if they checked the pilot for drug and alcohol use??