This "incident" is going to cost the industry Billions.
This "incident" is going to cost the industry Billions. Yes it is!
An incident like this due to low fuel temperatures will re-write the book on long cold flights, fly lower and faster.
If the fact that BA38 managed to fly over four thousand miles and augered in just a quarter of a mile short of the runway with no prior indication anything was wrong is an indication that all the sensing of fuel temperatures and metering is a load of bollocks as currently applied.
Looking at this incident another way, all the sophisticated systems on the 777 made the aircraft perform flawlessly for over eleven hours, then, due to some "fuel" temperature unforseen circumstance an engine quit.
Hey I can understand that, these things happen.
What I am having some difficulty believing that the second engine, with a different fuel supply and totally seperate sensing and control system quit FIVE SECONDS after the first one did!!!!
Waiting for the final report......