Safety

737-800 crew shut down engine after misidentifying fuel leak

By 2024-02-28T08:23:00

Qantas 737-800

Source: Wikimedia Commons

An open crossfeed valve on a Qantas Airways Boeing 737-800 led to a fuel imbalance in flight, with the crew misidentifying the problem as a fuel leak, and then shutting down an engine and diverting.

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