Scott Skylane wrote:

It does strike me as strange that if the aircraft ran out of fuel, there
was a postcrash fire big enough to need helicopter water drops to stop
it. I can envision small blazes caused by a few gallons of unuseable
fuel, but I gotta wonder...

Well, the plane went down only a few hours after takeoff. Perhaps there was
plenty of fuel in other tanks if the guy flying it had known how to switch tanks?

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