Originally Posted by
bearfoil
The a/c was known to have been tracking indifferently. Yet all focus is on the Ti, conveniently lying in wait in a place that would have been benign, had she been tracking true.
Are you reading a different report ? - the one I have from the BEA site clearly states that she was tracking true (or maybe pulling a very little to the
right) until after the fire starts causing loss of thrust. Moreover, no evidence of loss of takeoff performance on the previous flights that she made with the dodgy bogie.
Sure, the Ti is in a most (in)convenient place - a foot or so either way and no accident (at least not to Concorde, maybe some other a/c...). But then, sat at the end of the runway at max weight, hear that it's shifted to an 8 knot tailwind... merde, all the way down to the other end to takeoff the other way... and again, no accident. Procurring cause ?
And then again, if the Ti strip was found but remained as "unidentified part of another a/c" then it is all too convenient and suspiciously so... but forensically matched to the bodged Ti repair to the a/c that took off 5mins before ? How to arrange that ? - unless it is the improbable truth.