Originally Posted by
switch_on_lofty
If you read post 11 you'll see a rumour about not having enough fuel to reach the ship. That's what I was referring to.
and I didn't disagree with you, what ever reason they had enough time to put it down for a soft water landing but not make it back to the ship. I have heard it was an almost complete hydraulic failure of the aircraft, if it was fuel they wouldn't have grounded the whole fleet and they would know fuel was short and would have had the a crash boat / RHIB already launched