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In 1967, a rather shocking plane crash occurred in the United Kingdom that claimed the lives of 72 people. The term Fuel Starvation is attached to this accident. It’s a term that is pretty self-explanatory and Fuel Starvation could occur for many reasons and it’s not always as straight forward as a plane simply running out of fuel though that has happened. It can also refer to a scenario where the engines are not receiving the fuel they demand. The case of British midland Flight 542, the Stockport Air Disaster I would say falls into that sub category. This was case of fuel being present on the plane, yet engine flameout still occurred. So what happened here? Well to unpack this we need to back to 1967.

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https://www.baaa-acro.com/sites/defau...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...
https://simpleflying.com/canadair-nor...
http://www.carlscam.com/stockport/air...
https://www.skybrary.aero/articles/ai...
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