Colombian officials probing Monday's crash that killed 71 people including most of a Brazilian soccer team face one of the rarest types of accidents and perhaps one of the hardest for families to comprehend, amid reports that the airplane had run out of fuel. Some 0.5 percent of accidents on record were blamed on low fuel, according to the U.S.-based Flight Safety Foundation. "It is not common," said Paul Hayes, safety director at UK-based consultancy Ascend Flightglobal. Experts distinguish between fuel starvation, where there is fuel on board but something stops the flow, and fuel exhaustion, where tanks run dry. Colombian officials say there was no fuel on board when the plane operated by charter airline LAMIA Bolivia crashed into a hillside. Past fuel-related accidents have little in common, but some give clues to the way investigators may approach the task of unravelling this week's disaster near Medellin in Colombia. In 1990, an Avianca Boeing 707 ran out of fuel and crashed after missing an approach to New York, killing 73 people. Coincidentally, the jet had flown in from Medellin, followed by an unexpected wait in the holding stack. U.S. investigators cited the crew's...
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