On 20 Jan, 22:36, Mike Tullett
wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:26:50 -0800 (PST), TimHenderson wrote in


At 1250 (the accident was at 1242)

EGLL 171250Z 20013KT 9999 BKN008 10/08 Q0996 BECMG 24018G28KT SCT012
BKN020

so clearly the weather wasn't a factor.
On another thread, a knowledgeable jet pilot has surmised :

I suspect that the first point of investigation will be fuel waxing,
caused by exceptionally low temperatures en-route from China.

I doubt very much waxing was a factor as the engines still had power up to
two miles away and a height of only 600 feet. My money is on the engine
electronic control systems and particularly the associated software which
seems to have stopped manual override.

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Mike Tullett - Coleraine 55.13°N 6.69°W posted 20/01/2008 22:36:33 GMT

I'd fancy an outside bet at good odds that it was the spooks jamming
the mobile phone network for Gordon Brown's motorcade trip to Heathrow
that managed to interfere with the avionics ! But an unfortunately
timed blockage of the fuel supply systems (possibly linked with this
rumour that some alarm systems had been inactivated) seems a more
mundane explanation.