From: rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com   
      
   john bates wrote:   
      
   > "Eeyore"  wrote   
   > > john bates wrote:   
   > >   
   > >>  without total electrics e,g, no power for servos   
   > >> is there some form of mechanical links to control surfaces?   
   > >   
   > > Most airliners' flying surfaces are controlled *hydraulically* not   
   > > electrically, so it simply doesn't matter if you lose the Volts and Amps   
   > > in that respect.   
   > >   
   > > The A380 is different.   
   > >   
   > > Graham   
   >   
   > *** I already replied to this and to another but my server didn't   
   > put them up, just wanted to thank you for the info.   
      
   You're welcome.   
      
   This a genuinely ODD accident. BOTH engines simultaneously failing to repond   
   to a call for power is essentially UNHEARD of. Could it be the electronics   
   (the engines are digitally controlled - there's no throttle cable) ? Sure it   
   could but for that to happen means that there's some single point failure   
   mechanism that affects both and that's supposed not to exist.   
      
   However  previous examples of SINGLE engines failing to respond (due to a   
   software bug) DO exist.   
   http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAD.n   
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   Fuel contamination causing this seems like an long-shot outside possibility.   
      
   Graham   
      
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