mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 22 2008 | continental, flying, news, 757
Hmm...
Quoted: But on some of these European routes, the 757, with a range of 3,900 nautical miles, cuts it a little close. Barcelona is 3,398 nautical miles from Newark. Throw weather and holding patterns into the mix, and you're not leaving much room for error. Perhaps not coincidentally, Barcelona-Newark is one of the routes where the FAA found that pilots most often made fuel declarations.
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