Virginia Beach EMS Division Chief Bruce Nedelka said the carnage could have been much worse, had the plane's pilot not dumped fuel shortly before crashing.
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According to the FAA and the airline, a pilot noticed a low fuel pressure indication while on a flight from Denver, Colorado, on April 28, 2008.
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The jet was bound for Tokyo on January 8 when a pilot on another airplane spotted the 787 leaking fuel just before takeoff.
On Tuesday, a Japan Airlines flight bound for Tokyo aborted takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport after a pilot on another airplane spotted the 787 leaking fuel.
Shortly before takeoff, Mr. Hoy said, the pilot said the jet was going to make an unscheduled fuel stop in Gander due to high winds but would try to get passengers to Dulles in time to make connections.
Running out of fuel, in a pitch black sky, the pilot performed an emergency landing in Manchester, New Hampshire.
This week's announcement is the latest update on the pledge to "investigate measures to help with fuel costs in remote rural areas, starting with pilot schemes" in the coalition's Programme for Government of May 2010.
The reason, according to Global Insight's Lindland: People can switch from midsized, truck-based SUVs like the Ford Explorer, Chevrolet Trailblazer, Toyota 4Runner and Nissan Pathfinder into lighter, more fuel efficient so-called crossover vehicles like the Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander and forthcoming GMC Acadia without losing much utility.
The ATSB believe the plane became depressurised, leaving the pilot and passengers unconscious and the plane flying automatically until it ran out of fuel.
"Hey, that Japan Air may know it but they have fuel spewing out the leftward wing quite a bit, " the pilot of another plane told the control tower, which radioed the JAL crew and halted takeoff.
Four days after the raid, an FBI request for search warrants revealed details of a 23-month investigation into a whistle-blower's allegations that Pilot Flying J had intentionally withheld what could be millions of dollars in rebates on fuel purchases from its customers.
The jet carried a student pilot in the front seat and an experienced instructor behind him, and the leakage of jet fuel was "one of the indications that there was a mechanical malfunction, " Navy Capt.
The NTSB said other factors leading to the crash included the pilot's inability to perform a crucial flight maneuver known as autorotation after he ran out of fuel.
John Cox, a former airline pilot and industry consultant, said "in some circumstances the system may work well" to cut fuel consumption, but worried about likely early glitches and unintended consequences.
BP, a British petroleum company, is building a butanol pilot plant to do this near Hull in the north of England and also has big ambitions for the fuel.
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