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		D-Coder on July 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran o... As the Admiral Cloudberg article mentioned above notes, it was actually a metric (liters) to metric (kilograms) conversion error. (Plus fuel gauges that failed in an unsafe mode, and flying with clearly broken fuel gauge.)

kristofferR on July 24, 2023 [–]

Well, it's important to explain that the issue wasn't bad math, it was bad units.

The math was correct, they just did the math for pounds of fuel on board instead of kilograms of fuel on board.

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