I can't keep quiet any longer. Put EMI to bed. Its nothing more than trying to inject a conspiracy theory into the whole tragic affair.
It reminds me of all the A320 scaremongering 20 years ago. Lightning will bring it down, power cables will bring it down, the computers will be hijacked by virus's.....all humbug.
How many aircraft fly each day and how much EMI is out there 24/7.
Please get real.
A more likely scenario.........
water draining is a legal requirement but takes time
flight schedules quite often deny maintenance that time
fuel draining is quite often not correctly performed (the small issue of allowing the fuel to settle is universally ignored)
therefore it was just a question of time. The only surprise being that it was a 777 and not an airbus which are very prone to water/fuel issues, so much so that it is a mandatory ETOPS check to drain fuel once a week.