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Old 26th Feb 2009, 21:30
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Pieter van Vollenhoven told Dutch state television that the way the aircraft fell directly from the sky suggested that its engines might have stalled.
I would like to put the Investigation Board's chairman Mr van Vollenhoven's remarks into perspective...
Not disputing your subsequent points but where have you actually seen/read him say that? I watched RTL Nieuws and read several articles earlier and couldn't find any evidence he'd actually said that. The closest I could get was the piece I translated earlier where he quite clearly said he thought the aircraft had stalled.
You're right, he never said the engines stalled. He said something like that the engines probably weren't working otherwise the passengers would have heard them after which the interviewer concluded they were not working.
He said it in the NOVA interview
It more and more seems to be a stupid remark for an "accident investigator".
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