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Old 31st Dec 2014, 11:04
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marcopolosnr
 
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"One Air Asia crash body was found wearing a life jacket"
So it seems they knew they would have to ditch ? no engine power ?
is this the same cause that almost put CX in the drink earlier in 2014 ?

Pilots reveal death-defying ordeal as engines failed on approach to Chek Lap Kok | South China Morning Post

Is this a Surabaya repeat ? polluted fuel loaded from Surabaya?
CX “Ladies and gentlemen, this is the captain speaking. As you no doubt may be aware, we have a small problem with our engines …” Minutes earlier, the pilot who spoke those calm but ominous words, Malcolm Waters, then 35 years old, had been struggling alongside First Officer David Hayhoe to prevent the crippled Cathay Pacific aircraft from plunging into the South China Sea. Filled with contaminated fuel before take-off in Surabaya, the Airbus A330-342, with 322 passengers and crew aboard, had been gliding ever closer to the sea with no power in either engine”
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