CAPFlyer wrote:
I'm not sure that fuel quality has that much to do with it unless the screens aren't catching something that is causing the flowmeters to not read properly. The fuel system in the 737's is extremely robust and simple and the only real change between the Classic and NG tank systems are the length of the supply lines from the fuel tanks. I suspect it may be similar to the CFM issue that reared its head in the A32X series years ago and that it was a software issue more than anything.
I would tend to agree, but I'm sure Boeing is like the AFLAC duck in the row boat, busy trying to cover every possible hole in the bottom given the issues still unsolved concerning the batteries in the 87. My opinion is 32 incidents divided by 5 years based on 16000 ops fleet wide per day makes odds pretty slim, but ALASKA AIR claims 16 of those incidents and 14 by 'another carrier' HMMMM-