I notice 2 holes in that story.
First -
Once the flight arrived in San Francisco, Sergeant Bachleda and a coworker were asked to stay back while the aircraft was deplaned. They waited for the arrival of investigators, the fire chief, and the owner of the airport to explain what went wrong.
The owner on an airport went out to meet it (presumably that is SFO so no small airport)
And second -
Sergeant Bachleda said the captain and the crew were trying to figure out how the aircraft was losing 6,000 pounds of fuel an hour and then they knew exactly what was going on.
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The captain said they would have never made it to Japan if it wasn't for him.
If they knew they were randomly losing 6,000 pounds of fuel an hour and they couldn't stop it, then they'd know it wouldn't make it to Japan with the fuel level dropping so fast - so the comment seems very strange.
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