fuel pumps
NCM - no offence taken!
My colleague Tom Symonds points out the possible significance of the AAIB highlighting the fact that they are examining the fuel supply from the tanks to the engine fuel nozzles.
Previous posters have mentioned something called fuel-waxing. Would we be barking up the wrong tree to look into this possibility more?
What other explanations could there be for enough fuel not getting through from the tanks to the engines?
That's a completely open question.
Shoey
(PS as for pprune getting the story ahead of BBC News -- in case any of my bosses are reading this, we were examining the reports and first broke the story within minutes. the difference between pprune and the Beeb is that fact-checks don't have to be made on pprune before publishing! In the past we've received tipoffs about incidents which upon examination have turned out to be false-alarms or very minor.)