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My point, if you had read-on a little, is that BA and CX seem to have the same practice of high-tailing an a/c away from the scene of something embarassing. In the case of the BA 744 out of LA, they lit up the sky with their spectacular engine failure, granted the residents of LA might have thought it was Bruce Willis' latest Die Hard movie and ignored it(!).
CX have in the bad old days of 2004/2005 operated under the same M.O., where they might have normally done an IFR after an engine failure on TO ex-HKG (their home base) or indeed after an ass-dragging, instead they trucked the a/c on to an OUTPORT destination, to rectify the 'embarrasing' issue.
Is this getting any clearer?? BA returned to their home-base, slightly understandable, CX flew their a/c AWAY from the home-base out of fear-of-embarassment - WTF!
Regads,
N1 Vibes