Preliminary report on Cathay Pacific aircraft accident released
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First hand version of HK CAD update of 11 Aug 2010 off their website:
http://www.cad.gov.hk/reports/AB-03-2010e.pdf
spheres huh?
http://www.cad.gov.hk/reports/AB-03-2010e.pdf
spheres huh?
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Already did, not many people know HLM the previous days SUB flight had EPR fluctuations but obviously not to HLL effect. On the day of LL, LM was grounded for fuel system decontamination and cleaning as precaution, the only difference the fuel samples were not investigated by AIB, only in-house.
It would be interesting to know whether any of the fuel farm tanks at SUB had any work done on them on the days and weeks prior to this event. This contaminant sounds very much like they could have used some form of high pressure abrasive cleaning to possibly remove corrosion from the inside of the tank/s and then didn’t clean them out correctly after the job was done.
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The subject flight had used one of the new gates at the terminal - with new piping to the fuel hydrant.
Next question: Why didn't the fuel filtering on the fuel truck stop the **** from being pumped into the aeroplane fuel tanks? The truck filters are much finer than those on the aeroplane and they should have stop this event from occurring.
Next question: Why didn't the fuel filtering on the fuel truck stop the **** from being pumped into the aeroplane fuel tanks? The truck filters are much finer than those on the aeroplane and they should have stop this event from occurring.
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Not a new gate, but there has been an extension to the apron there and hence new sections of fuel piping were laid under the tarmac. The local engineer says they didn't flush out the dirt from the pipes but just started using it almost immediately. I guess they did not want to waste any fuel even if the first few loads were contaminated!
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Surprising that nobody has commented on the fact that no other operators a/c departing SUB at that time reported falling out of the sky.......or is that because duller than dishwater CX were the only airline to use the 'new' hydrant. It is only a rumour of course that all other airlines using SUB were aware of the maintenance and refused to use the fuel. 
