-=> Quoting Bo Simonsen to Jim Weller <=-

 JW>We had an instance here a few years ago when a jet plane made a
 JW>forced landing for lack of fuel. There had been an error converting
 JW>gallons to litres. Some fuel attendant thought there were 4 gallons
 JW>in a litre instead of 4 litres to a gallon, so the plane took off
 JW>with just 1/16 of the fuel it required for the trip. The plane
 JW>landed nearby in time and there were no injuries.

 BS> Where is here?

I'm in Yellowknife in the northwest Territories of Canada.

 BS> I see this is a quite big miscalculation, was the plane in transit
 BS> from europe to the US or so?

It was a domestic Canadian flight; it happened a few years ago when
the metric system was first bering introduced here.




Cheers

YK Jim


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