Giving up redundancy built into a system for a good reasons and having
to land short of your intended destination with some 400 people in the
back because of a low-fuel emergency certainly counts in my book.

Whoa there! This is beginning to sound like yellow journalism. He
landed short of his destination, under control, with plenty of
resesrves, just not enough fuel to make it to the destination with
reserves. This is most assuredly =not= a "low fuel emergency", although
saying so will sell papers and generate usenet traffic.

Now if he =had= generated a true low-fuel emergency due to mishandling
of the incident, that would be something else. But there's no evidence
in any of the reports I've seen that he did this.

Jose
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