<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Cholula:
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So I spent the next 2 1/2 hours with my eyes glued to the wing watching fuel stream out......
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I hate to tell you this Cholula, but it sounds much too similar to a technique we use frequently in my trade. When we have a very worried and anxious spouse to a patient, usually male, usually fixated by our technology/instruments, who we sense needs a little help to relax, we ask him to "help" us by keeping an eye on "the dial" and tell us when the needle goes below a point the machine cannot make it go below.
Works like a charm, the patient is happy, the spouse is happy and we are happy!!
In other words, it is hard to believe that if the "fuel leak" truly was a problem that it would be entrusted to a mere passenger to take on the given responsibility.
I may be wrong - if so I apologize!