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Old 4th Jun 2009, 22:04
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phil gollin
 
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Still not madly keen on the interim report.

They still used the "wrong" fuel condition (90 not 70 ppm water) in the tests (for the perfectly valid reason that that is the industry standard so it would give results against POSSIBLE future failures) and they still didn't get the results that occured on the day of the accident.

The point about the water content being very variable (possibly due to ice freezing and melting) and difficult to measure is a serious issue. One glaring question is what end conditions they would have expected (in real life the water sample taken was 40 ppm).

So the tests are still first steps NOT a "smoking gun".

I am still disurbed that they are only concentrating on the B777/Trent combination and not extending the research, although of course there are the other recommendations.

I am a little concerned that the reports are looking too narrowly at the problem.

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