Originally Posted by L337
It was a little unique in the airframe operating back to back "cold" flights.
For the first time ever in 6.5M flights? I don't believe that.
Was the water in the fuel ever water long enough to be drained?
That on the other hand sound like a more plausible question.
Originally Posted by scrivenger
The excess water maintenance message... is only designed to be triggered in centre tank if more than 627 litres (138 gallons) or so of free water is settled at bottom of particular part (any idea which?) of centre tank.
I find myself staring at a figure for water (138 gallons in the centre tank alone!) more than two
orders of magnitude larger than the the 5 litres (40 ppm) quoted in the AAIB report, yet "acceptable" before an EICAS
advisory message is triggered?
For the moment, most of our assumptions and guesswork are all wrong somewhere, or BA038 would have happened far earlier, and maybe not with the same outcome....
But since it happened on BA038, it's lurking somewhere to pounce again.... so I'm among those that hope a plausible "probable cause" will be found, and if I can contribute my minute bit to that... so much the better.
CJ