Airline regulators reject 777 safety warnings
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Posted on: December 2nd, 2009 by Andrew Roberts
Aviation authorities in the US have rejected safety warnings by ruling that Boeing 777 aircraft would be allowed to continue to fly long-distance routes until 2011 with parts that have caused engines to ice up and shut down mid-flight.
It has been reported that the US Federal Aviation Administration ruling ignores calls from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Air Line Pilots Association to hasten the replacement of the faulty mechanisms.
Concerns have been expressed over two suspect parts in the Rolls-Royce engine used by 130 Boeing 777 aircraft, but they do not have to be replaced until the beginning of 2011.
Industry sources say the delay has been put down to the limited available of parts.
Engine ice build-up can occur during extended periods of high-altitude flight over Polar Regions, however ice-induced shut-downs are rare, according to the report.
One incident occurred last year when a British Airways Boeing 777 jet landed short of the runway at London’s Heathrow Airport that injured 13 people.
Airline regulators say that interim safety measures, to be conducted by pilots, are enough to prevent incidents such as emergency descents or mid-air engine shut-downs.
Rolls-Royce and Boeing are investigating the issue.
Or on the other hand the unsubstantiated theory that ice in the fuel-lines breaks free and can obstruct the mesh of the fuel heaters is actually known not to be the cause of the incident afflicting BA038 Boeing 777 – hence the lack of urgency.
The balance of probabilities is indeed that this is not the cause. These aircraft have flown a vast number of sub-sub-zero miles without such a manifestation and then, in this single incident, this fault is supposed to have occurred near simultaneously to both engines entirely separate fuel systems. Give me a break – really!
Anyone interested in finding the actual cause does not have to look a great deal further than into the separate very unique circumstance that was taking place simultaneously to this aircraft’s glide path.
I will not elaborate other than to say that the facts to piece together are all their in the public domain. And yes I know all about Delta Airlines B772 near Denver on Nov 26th 2008 but once the probable scenario for flight BA038 is understood then the same explanation stands for Delta Airlines B772 when the approximate ground location is realised. And again the same in all likelihood goes for Airbus QF72. Work it out for yourselves folks but will tell you one thing; that authorities and the MSM are not interested in this little nugget of truth -no.
Added by Richard Tobin on 2. December 2009