Iced fuel lines caused Heathrow crash
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Air accident investigators have concluded that ice in fuel lines probably caused the crash of a British Airways jet at Heathrow earlier this year, CNN has reported. The BA Boeing 777 was coming in to land at London en route from Beijing when the plane lost power and crashed just inside the airport’s perimeter fence. Now the Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has said that water, which is normally present in aircraft fuel, may have frozen because of unusually cold weather the 17 January flight.
“Although the exact mechanism in which the ice has caused the restriction is still unknown in detail, it has been proven that ice could cause a restriction in the fuel feed system,” the report said.
Nineteen people suffered minor injuries in the incident, which some people previously believed was caused by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s motorcade (which was at Heathrow at the time) interfering with the plane’s electronic equipment.
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