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Rutland at Jutland: radio trouble and the fuel follow-up

The follow-up questions the sequence of the landing and the aircraft's fuel problem.

Question

Wasn't part of Rutland's problem that he ran out of fuel?

Short answer

Alex thinks the fuel problem came after he took off again, while stressing his efforts to restore the wireless.

Notes

A participant remembers fuel shortage as part of Rutland's difficulty. Alex thinks that happened after another takeoff and describes repeated efforts to restore the radio. His wording leaves the sequence as a recollection rather than a firmly established chronology.