Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Ah, OK. But either way it's hardly a smoking gun pointing to evidence having been fabricated.
Anecdotal evidence on this forum suggests that there might have been a reduction in engine power during the loop ascent. That may or may not have happened. If it did happen it might have been pilot input, conscious or otherwise, or it might have been a technical malfunction. The fuel pump was found to be compromised by RR but the AAIB said that RR didn't consider that to be relevant to its performance. RR said no such thing. It seems to me that the AAIB is now part of the problem and its investigation needs to be investigated. The High Court ruling ensured that the Coroner wasn't able to do that. Thus no smoking gun.
And your evidence that it did play a part is ... ?
None whatsoever, just as we don't know if the positively dangerous Chinook Mk2 FADEC played a part in the deaths of 29 people on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994. What we do know is that both aircraft were unairworthy, a fact that both investigations preferred to pass over.