Virgin Australia flight, with only 15 minutes of fuel left, forced to land in fog A VIRGIN Australia jet had about 15 minutes of fuel left when crew told passengers to brace for a "firm" landing in thick fog at Mildura last month. Passengers were told to "brace, brace, brace" as the pilots, who had no ability to fly to another airport, brought the aircraft down in the dense fog, a report by the Air Transport Safety Bureau has revealed. The Adelaide-bound Virgin Boeing 737-800, carrying 85 passengers and six crew from Brisbane, was one of two caught out when fog closed in unexpectedly on Adelaide. Both aircraft were forced to divert to Mildura, where the airport's automated weather station was not available and weather conditions were not as forecast.