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Old 7th Jul 2013, 16:00
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Ian W
 
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so why is no-one talking about similarities with british Airways crash of their 777 when there was no power increase final? iced up fuel lines thought to be probable cause. Not a hint on any network that that might explain it all. and the missing engine? Torn off by the sea wall. everyone is ignoring its loss. if the same reason would have high seriosness for Boeing 777 fleet!
The only similarity is that both aircraft landed short and the low number of fatalities.

In the British Airways 38 case the aircraft had been flying in extremely cold minus 70C and lower temperatures for a long time it then carried out a Continuous Descent Approach which at Heathrow is clean from 8000 feet or above with engines at close to idle and then dropping gear and flap and spooling up at 4 miles to be in landing configuration at 2 miles from touchdown. The BA engines both failed to spool up correctly due to ice slush in the fuel filters.

In this case the aircraft had not been flying in extremely cold air and had not carried out a continuous descent approach. From witness statements just before the impact the aircraft engines had spooled up but too late to prevent impact. Which is possibly the reason that the detached engine was quite a long way further up the runway than the aircraft,
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