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Old 8th May 2010, 11:35
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NAVSAT failure

Originally Posted by takata;#875
An A330, out of fuel, already glided about 100 NM and landed.
Yes, but in this case, doesn't the last ACARS message tell us that the airplane was descending through an altitude of approx. 8000 - 9000 ft at a rate "greater, as an absolute value, than 1,800 ft/min for five seconds" at time 2:14:26? If the sending of the message due at 2:15:14 was prevented by a dual engine failure occurring between these two times, at ambient temperatures well above freezing, could it have been due to icing?

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