Eeyore wrote:   
   >   
   > user@nouse.org wrote:   
   >   
   >> Physical fuel starvation doesn't look good either,   
   >   
   > The tanks had fuel in them.   
   >   
   >   
   >> engine rundown would likely be staggered with one failing many minutes   
   >> before   
   >> the other.   
   >   
   > Exactly. Not to mention the EICAS alerts.   
   >   
   >   
   >> How about digital equipment failure (soft or hard)?   No, I'm not   
   >> 777 qualified.   
   >   
   > That seems a possibility although how 2 independent systems (one FADEC on   
   each   
   > engine) would fail like that is seriously puzzling. Did they possibly have a   
   > recent firmware upgrade ? That's given problems in the past.   
      
   Any kind of maintenance action could involve all items   
   of a kind at once.   
      
   No windshear   
      
   No chickens crossing the road   
      
   No fuel starvation   
      
   I don't think pollution is bad enough yet to   
   rate volcanic ash   
      
   That leaves   
      
   digital equipment (design/maintenance/operation)   
      
   .. what else?   
      
   engine out approach and one in a million odds?   
      
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