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"When the plane arrived at Kennedy, the captain said it had so little fuel that had there been any delay in landing, "I would have had to declare a fuel emergency" — a term that tells air traffic controllers a plane needs immediate priority to land.
The last major U.S. air crash attributed to low fuel was on Jan. 25, 1990, when an Avianca Boeing 707 ran out while waiting to land at Kennedy. Seventy-three of 158 aboard were killed."
Whoa. This is an outrage. The safety of people on airline flights are clearly being made a second priority after fueling with this one. Not to mention that's probably the worst thing airlines could do in the eyes of commuters after 9/11. However, what the real dilema is, it is also clear that this new system is not even working in the way it's supposed to. So here we have safety being put on the backburner for a policy to save fuel, however the policy does not even successfully accomplish this as shown in the above quote ! Blasphemy..
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