Shaggy SD
Double engine failure on short final would account for this. Am I alone in finding the official cause of the BA 777 crash at Heathrow (ice in fuel causing both engines to fail at exactly the same moment in two seperate fuel systems) a tad unlikely?
After a working lifetime in software I know wher my money was for that one. Is this the inevitable repeat?
In the BA case the approach to LHR is a Continuous Descent Approach at close to idle idle and clean from 8000ft or higher then at 4 miles out configure for landing drop gear and flap and then spool up the engines to be established on finals at 2 miles.
In this case there was no requirement for a clean CDA to 4 miles with idle engines then spool up the engines for landing configuration. So the only similarity is that both aircraft landed short. The requirement to spool up from idle to landing RPM was only in the LHR case. In this case the aircraft should have been stable in landing configuration at least 6 miles out.