"WingFlaps" wrote in message
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On Jan 23, 5:58 am, D Ramapriya wrote:
On Jan 22, 8:33 pm, Thomas Borchert
wrote:

D,

Here's an intriguing take on what might have caused the 777's engine
to shut down.

Oh, one more thing: We don't know the engines "shut down" as you put
it. As you seem to care a great deal about aircraft safety, why not try
some accuracy?

I was merely citing the article which begins with, "Transport
Department investigators are probing the possibility a crossed line
diverted a call to the Boeing 777, interfering with its computers and
shutting down the engines."

Ergo, that isn't my verdict (for the want of a better term).

And the article itself is all of ten sentences with no apparent
theorizing by the journalist but more a collage of cites of among
others a Boeing engineer and an incident involving an inadvertent call
transfer into an airplane flight deck.

Ramapriya

The chances of a cell phone affecting a flight computer in this way
are so slight as to be negligible- cell phones don't generate that
much power (IMHO). Perhaps someone who knows the prelanding checks
might tell us if both engines are coupled to the same tank?
It so, it is far more likely to be a fuel issue.

Cheers

I believe the engines each feed from a tank in the wing they are
attached to. Redundancy required separate fuel supplies, fuel controls,
engine controls etc. There are very few items in common.
if it was a software issue, it would be interesting to find out why it
had not manifested itself in 6 years and 20,000+ hours.



Al G