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Old 7th August 2008 | 09:53
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FullWings
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I encourage each of the Professional Pilots to monitor this investigation.
I'm sure many of us are: we've read the interim reports and now we're waiting for the final one.

Months have passed and today there is no guidance or direction from the investigation which would tend to make our crews and passengers less likely to experience uncommanded non-responsiveness to the command for thrust.
Possibly because, at present, no such guidance exists in any form?

...stand up and challenge the AAIB, NTSB, FAA, Boeing, Rolls Royce, British Air, etal. to put their head to the cause and effect.
I wonder what they've been up to the last eight months? Obviously all on holiday.

I have sent numerous communications to the US FAA and NTSB regarding the BA038 event. There has been absolutely no response from either agency.
Maybe if you stopped bothering them, they'd have more time for the investigation?

AFAIK, there are no significant operational changes that have been mandated/suggested following the loss of G-YMMM. That doesn't mean there won't be any in the future if/when the root cause(s) of the accident are fully understood; in the meantime, we just have to be patient.

The AAIB, NTSB and others have to take a very broad outlook in situations such as these and that involves a large amount of dead-end investigation, conjecture and theorising. To make such ruminations public would a) slow down the progress of the investigation, b) lead to all sorts of unjustified speculation in the media and c) might lead to a reduction in flight safety if the diagnosis or the 'cure' were wrong at that time.

Just because those involved are not 'blogging' the BA38 on a daily basis doesn't mean that they aren't working hard on it. What do you want? "Today we initialised a Monte-Carlo simulation of the fuel dynamics in the inlet manifold; tomorrow we're checking the EEC wiring but not until after the pizza"?
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