In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brooke Clarke writes: >Hi: > >There was a recent incident when a passenger aircraft (maybe Canada) had >to make an emergency landing because of a wrong metric - English >conversion resulted in not enough fuel to get to the destination.
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