George Patterson wrote:

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?

He was reading this other thread about running a tank dry and really
balled it up.