The 777 crash - another theory

Jules wrote in news:yLylj.2338
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It is certainly significant if BA says they will be looking into it.
Perhaps they are lunatics?

The article was vague but it sounds like the lady, through whatever
bumbling got put through on a phone patch to the plane.


We don't have a ****ing phone on the airplane!
Except my own cellphone which I use to call up and whine at (s)crewing.


Bertie

Phil J wrote in news:1c2d0129-f7fb-4404-900a-
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On Jan 22, 9:45*pm, Jules
wrote:
It is certainly significant if BA says they will be looking into it.
Perhaps they are lunatics?

The article was vague but it sounds like the lady, through whatever
bumbling got put through on a phone patch to the plane.

That incident happened ten weeks ago to a different 777. There is no
mention whatsoever that it happened again to this flight. All they
are really saying is this happened ten weeks ago, maybe it happened
again. I think the chances are pretty slim. I can buy a pilot having
his cellphone on when he is waiting on a taxi-way for takeoff
clearance. But why would a pilot have a cellphone on during final
approach after a very long over-ocean flight?

We don't have them on at all. It is on the pre-start checklist to turn them
off.


Bertie

In article ,
says...


Don't take it personal, it is sop in this newsgroup to pick away at
people; like crows, with a roadside carcass.



It is SOP to de-mask and challenge lunatics who try to come across as
experts, when there are knowledgeable people present and ready to answer.
Mxsmanic is the world champion, but the present contributor is no slouch in
the matter.

Perhaps you didn't see his previous post, in which he suggested the BA crew
should not have executed an emergency evacuation after a crash landing in a
field. He felt it would have been smarter to wait for the air stairs to
arrive and should these not easily get across the drainage ditches, the
best solution would have been ladders, and only after these proved to be
"too short" would deployment of the slides have been advisable.

He proffered ridicule for the crew for having quickly adopted this
solution, when he could have simply asked (because he doesn't know) whether
this was the best choice.

No picking away at carcasses for people who ask questions for things they
don't know about . . .

D Ramapriya wrote in news:85e1fbf3-1050-4c39-aa43-
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On Jan 23, 7:45 am, Jules
wrote:
It is certainly significant if BA says they will be looking into it.
Perhaps they are lunatics?


Myopic for any investigator - forensic, medical, accident, etc. - to
disregard anything within the ambit of possibilities.



Martians flying in a teapot aiming marshmallow clovers at the airplane did
it.



What's the bets the Sun would print that?


I know I'd lay down a large bet on them doing so.


Bertie

Airbus wrote in :

In article
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says...


Here's an intriguing take on what might have caused the 777's engine
to shut down. A dramatic pic of the moment of impact included...
http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article711639.ece

Ramapriya

After publishing this I think The Sun will have to forgo the right to
publish on April 1st! And to think they missed the opportunity to posit
that it was Diana calling - from Paris - proof she is still alive!!



For those unfamiliar with the Sun, this is a sample of their wares:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle715636.ece

Classy, eh? Have a look around the site, it's hilarious if nothing else.

It's a garbage Brit scandal sheet One of many. Not content with polluting
Britain's mind with it, they're franchising all over the place.

If they ran a headline saying the sun ws going to rise in the east tomorrow
I would't beleive it.

Bertie

On Jan 22, 7:27 am, D Ramapriya wrote:
Here's an intriguing take on what might have caused the 777's engine
to shut down. A dramatic pic of the moment of impact included...http://thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article711639.ece

Ramapriya

Surely the tabloids can offer a better explanation for the mysterious
loss of power.

Here's a few:

- Man in nearby flat, fed up with noise fires home-made
Electromagnetic Pulse device (modified toaster) at approaching BA
flight

- Prime Minister presses wrong button in his Jaguar -- blames Q-branch
for confusion.

- Boeing admits forgetting to remove "off switch" from test designs.

- Faulty coffee maker shorts cabin electrics.

- Pilot claims he saw a Blue Police Box materialize in flight path,
panics.

On Jan 23, 11:45 am, wrote:

- Pilot claims he saw a Blue Police Box materialize in flight path, panics.


One other could be, "Cable connecting the throttle to the throttle
sensor inexplicably snaps"

Ramapriya

Jules,

The article


We're talking about "The Sun". To qualify anything in that newspaper as
an "article" is an insult to journalism.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

On Jan 23, 7:08*pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Jules wrote in news:yLylj.2338
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We don't have a ****ing phone on the airplane!
Except my own cellphone which I use to call up and whine at (s)crewing.



Aha! So that explains the whine a poster was asking about the other
day!
Does anyone know if both engines feed off the same tank(s) on
approach? It was at the end of a 10 hour flight wasn't it?

Cheers

On Jan 23, 1:15 pm, WingFlaps wrote:

Does anyone know if both engines feed off the same tank(s) on
approach? It was at the end of a 10 hour flight wasn't it?


Don't know about the 777 but I've heard that on the A320 and A330,
there are six main pumps - two in the center tank and two in each
inner tank, and each engine is fed with one pump in the center tank
and with the two pumps in its own side inner tank. When inner tanks
reach low level, valves between outer and inner open and an automatic
gravity transfer occurs (on one of the A330 variants, fuel transfers
from center tank to wing tanks are managed through a transfer valve).

Ramapriya