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Old Apr 12, 2024 | 7:44 am
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Originally Posted by Sprodo
Interesting one I’ve never seen before - but yesterday’s 4454 from RTM to LCY was cancelled. Flight had fully boarded, about to go when it was notified that there was some concern over the ‘ratio’ of the fuel (renewable:fossil) used in the plane wasn’t as expected. ‘luckily’ they hadn’t started the plane yet but seemingly Shell went to ground, they blamed BP who supplied it and no one wanted to confirm anything so it wasn’t risked.

also affected a transavia plane fuelled at the same time - so now there’s 2 planes sat at RTM that may be there a while pending further investigations.
I suspect this is probably the Transavia plane ... on the ground in RTM for nearly 24 hours ... due to depart later this afternoon

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ph-hze
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