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Old 17th Jan 2009, 22:11
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Vee1Kut
 
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Well here's a scenario...one engine dies, who knows why...your flying an aircraft that is overgross..you not very high up....you panic, and firewall your last good engine, an engine that is being trend monitored, and has 30,000 hours on it...so it dies...your really low, because your doing a reduced thrust, Flex type of departure, with a lower then max climb rate...you see some bldgs...so you go for that big expanse of water...glide along over the water as long as you can, getting as slow as you can, splash, probably about about 100 kts.

So maybe they got bad fuel, maybe some fuel tank switching stupidity, starvation scenario, maybe some fuel pump thing...maybe ice in the inlets came into the engines...

I thought all the birds flew South in the middle of winter....

Double engine failure? At the same time? Anyone want to calcuate those odds, without the hand of human intervention?

Not meant to incite, but rather I am really going to be curious when the engines get pulled, and the flight data recorder info is made available...which I doubt...
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