Amount of water in the fueltanks on BA038
I have just read the latest report - interesting reading and thorough work, but many questions remain.
According the report (page 12): the estimated amount of water in the tanks at departure from PEK was max. 5 liters plus maybe some water left from the flight to PEK, but the aircraft was sumped before departure and on the day before, so I suppose that it will be safe to assume that the amount was rather small. (?)
The A/C had almost 100 000 liters of fuel at departure from PEK - and the 5 liters of water "was evenly spread throughout the fuel".
How could this extremely small amount of water have produced severe problems on just this flight and not on thousands of other flights in the past - the actual temperatures along the route were low, but not unusually low?
Which factor(s) made this flight so special? The report mentions some - but again 5 liters of water!?
I am looking forward to the final report.
I admire the crew for their excellent A/C handling.
Last edited by grebllaw123d; 5th Sep 2008 at 11:58.