Can bigots pin this on contaminated Chinese fuel again?
arcniz already has mostly answered this...
bigots? Haven't really seen any here. Some far-fetched suggestions, yes, but that's what R&N is all about.
contaminated ... fuel? It already seems to have been established the stuff wasn't contaminated.
... Chinese fuel? Maybe the particular 'cut' of fuel may end up having some relevance, although it sounds less and less likely. Tons more of the stuff were uplifted on the same day from the same place, and nobody else ended up just short of the runway.
... again.? The venom is in the tail. When did this happen before?
In short, I think we can class this one as a wooden-spoon-stirring post.
Far more interested in the ice accretion discussion.
As a non-engine engineer, I thought compression heated the air.
So with an OAT of about +10°C, wouldn't any earlier ice have melted rather promptly, once OAT was over 0°C?