I don't know Joel, that article looks pretty much like the usual 'expert' garbage we have seen thus far. RUMORS about an SB? What the? It'd be great if they let us all in on it as I just arrived in a RR 777 from SFO and nobody has informed us of anything pertaining to the engines. Service bulletins are issued or not, they are not rumors.
Can we put the cell phone thing to rest please.
Comparing this to the B767 CF60 FADEC problems is pushing thing's just a bit.
Not enough flight testing? I guess the last accident/incident free decade isn't enough.
If those guy's haven't seen temps that low at altitude during the winter on the polar routes then they haven't flown them very often. (me, just three trips and all three had warnings of below -67)
Check out the latest FAA update if you can get your hands on one. Basically it reads that, thus far, there is no contamination, there is no EEC problem and when asked for fuel the EEC's delivered. I'm not sure what that last part means considering what happened, but it's still a mystery and scare mongering from 'aviation press' and 'experts' doesn't help.
Mate, I just don't get it. I've flown LAX-LHR with low temp NOTAM warnings and had extremely low temps; never a problem.
A continuous decent in to LHR with no thrust movement? In what parallel universe did that happen. Try at least one turn in the hold. Besides, if they were configuring there would have been power lever movement.
So far I've read, in the BBC no less, that the gear came down at 600 ft, that they were manovering on final, that they were not manouvering on final. That the captain brought the flaps back to flap 20. That the plane landed with flap 20. Etc. Etc. Then nothing about the above.
The skipper and the FO parade in front of the cameras the day after? Are they insane?
And the plane came from Beijing, not Shanghai; It's the little thing's. . .
My point; I'll admit that I have no idea if these idiots admit the same. Very weird indeed and yes I should have shut up until the report came out. It would have been nice if these guy's had at least read the latest from the FAA though.