us on bbc news. tell us first of all what happened yesterday? what we should experience? where you are trying to top up your car or were you in the position where you really had to get petrol? had to get petrol? actually, i worked on had to get petrol? actually, i worked on sunday had to get petrol? actually, i worked on sunday night, - had to get petrol? actually, i worked on sunday night, so i j had to get petrol? actually, i - worked on sunday night, so i work in oxford and ifinish my shift worked on sunday night, so i work in oxford and i finish my shift and worked on sunday night, so i work in oxford and ifinish my shift and i had no fuel left. my car was unreserved feel. i decided to fill up, but i stayed in the uk for two hours and at the same point i was tired and towards the end of the queue, the petrol station staff came up queue, the petrol station staff came up and said there is no more petrol left, only diesel available. so i just went home and thought i would have a
to are mars a sarare are mamars that. but with the moon landing, 30 seconds of fuel left, they knew they had it made and they weren t too stressed out about it, so it was kind of interesting that what sounds like not very much fuel left, they fought that they were in good shape. what exactly would you say that we learned as a society, what did we learn from apollo 11? we learned that we can accomplish something like that. i think the whole world was amazed that we had actually done it. and the landing itself in many ways was much more complex than the walk. even as a kid, i was so impressed by going out later and looking at the moon and realizing out there almost a quarter of a million miles away, two astronauts were getting ready to walk. i even understood back then that the landing was the hard part. and once we landed, that these guys were going to get the chance to go outside and walk on
hospital that is already overcrowded. reporter: they have been told that they have just six hours of fuel left, and at that point, without any help, they will have to close their doors. what else we can do? the only thing we can do is go into the shelter, do the medical evaluation, but we can t provide medications to those patients. reporter: and that s in part why you re seeing tents like this pop up in places like san juan. you see, even before maria, a third of the population here was reported to be in poor health. more likely the older here, more likely they have chronic disease like hypertension and diabetes. and therein lies the concern. what happens to all these patients if they don t get access to care within the next several days? getting healthcare services up and running is key. but the only way to do that is to make sure clinics like this are poured with fuel and right now that s a big unknown. dough ming oh cruz, director of pediatric hospital knows just how critic
new york. a reserve, some holding fuel, and then also enough fuel to go to boston and land. with more than enough fuel, that shouldn t be a problem, but it soon becomes one. in new york, the weather was bad. so as they came up the east coast, they began to be issued holding instructions and they held for three different times. the delays totaled 77 minutes. around 8:20 p.m. they have only a little more than 14,000 pounds of fuel left. enough for another hour or so in the air. during holding pattern, that s when the flight engineer should have make sure that the fuel levels were fine. avianca, too heavy. bring you in 15 miles northeast subpoena that fine with you and your fuel? they inquired with air traffic controllers about how much longer it was going to be. they were complaining about their fuel levels. air traffic control asked where their alternate was, which was trial inning to boston, but the
how do we know that? how are people coming to that belief? my understanding, and i don t know if you have heard or you know from your sources, is that because the pings stopped at a certain point, and they re making the assumption they would be able to tell it was on the ground or not is. that your understanding? well, that s right. we have to be very precise. the pings stopped and the aircraft were still in tact. either it crashed into the water, a deliberate act or because it something happened on the plane or it landed somewhere. i would say most of the investigators and folks who have been watching this would say the less likely option is that it landed somewhere. but it is an option, and at the time of the last transmission, the plane had about an hour s worth of fuel left. so it s not as though it was