Posts by user "T28B" [Posts: 35 Total up-votes: 222 Pages: 2]

Since they have not done so yet, you might want to check your assumptions.
I operate under the assumption that the civil aviation authority in India take their job seriously, as do the other major players who have arrived to assist.
Have a nice vacation, and you haven't seen all of the feces that's been flushed.

The unions, all of them, need to fight the good fight.
But that's really a separate topic.

On the other hand, the guy with the A&P badge has to do diagnostics and trace faults across various systems and subsystems (and fix them where there's a repair procedure available).
They get to look into all of the various write-ups from the pilots when the aircraft and its systems don't work quite as they are expected to.
Let's not dismiss that kind of input without due consideration for what it looks like from the point of view of someone whose task it is to keep things working.
Pilots run into similar oddities - well, it's supposed to do this, per the manual, but it's doing something differently - now and again, right?

Let's not run down the rat hole of "the journos once again got it wrong with terminology" as they so often do.
For the level of precision that they are held to, they are close enough.
For our purposes, no, they are not.

What you are pointing to is a maintenance error, in terms of "switch not catching/functioning properly" but (for some reason, pick one of many) not replaced.
On both switches.
The above is also, consistent with your caveat, a speculation.

Admin note: we keep getting these "vapour lock" posts from various posters. It has gotten mentioned with some frequency by some posters, and it gets removed as noise. That's why you aren't seeing it.

Roseland, while I am not trying to pick on you, how familiar are you with the 787-8's fuel system?
Can you trace a drop of fuel from the refueling opening to the time of exhaust out the back end of the GE engine?
I can't. (There was I time I could on a few of the aircraft that I flew, but it's been some years).
Can you cite any technical bulletins or ADs for the 787-8 that point to vapour lock hazards / instances / cautions, etcetera.
If so, then back up your speculation with that kind of useful reference.

The above is an appeal to all posters to do as tdracer did in the opening post of this (second) thread: offer informed speculation where speculation arises in the course of discussing this tragic accident.

Thank you for your kind reply.
Did you find Musician 's post about Fuel Temperature and Thermal Buffer fuel useful? I did.
I left your post up, rather than deleting it, for a couple of reasons - that response is the kind of thing I was hoping to elicit.

We can stow the discussion of MH 370's satnav signals now. I think the points have been made and aren't really germane to the accident in this thread.

For Cloud Chasing:
Which media sources? (Article source and date would be helpful).
Any number of posts in both threads have offered the estimation that the flight would have not had additional fuel, and thus a "fill all the way up with fuel" assumption wasn't warranted.
If the reports you mention are credible (rather than mere speculation and rumor) that would be of interest.
The actual fuel load will, in time, be known once the FDR info is processes in full.

I am not from India, nor associated with this investigation.
Note this excerpt from your linked article:
I will defend their investigating team, and the release of information time line, based on at least these points:
1. They'd rather do things deliberately, and get it right, than to make a slight rush and get something wrong (even a little bit wrong)
2. The political leadership are sensitive to how the information age, and social media, amplifies even the slightest misstatement.
3. If they can do it in house then why not do it in house? Why add further delay by transferring the recorder and risk accidents in handling during transit?
4. They are under a timeline set by ICAO, not the time line that your, or my, or "the public's" hunger for information and impatience sets.

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt.

sabenaboy
That question has been asked with some frequency in both threads.
So far, "unknown" is the correct answer.
Were there another person, one expects that evidence will be found as the CVR data is deciphered by the investigating team.

Also on that site is this article:
There is no doubt that Air India is eager to restore confidence in their customer base.
While it is a public statement, I'll offer to you that it is neither accurate enough, nor precise enough, for our purposes as people here on PPRuNe discuss aircraft performance.

Not confirmed . What is apparent is a (substantial) loss of thrust. That's what one can say with some certainty.
That has already been discussed, and there has been abundant comment. Suggest you go back and review the original thread, and this one as well.
Thank you for your interest.

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You left out this part: over a populated area that was somewhat built up.
That adds a degree of difficulty to the attempt, with a modest amount of energy and altitude with which to work.
(They hit a building on the way down; some of the casualties were people on the ground).

This is a valid complaint.
We'll take a brief pause in hopes of some fresh info from the investigating authority.

Come back tomorrow, this has turned back into a Hamsterwheel.