According to an airline pilot it was an engine failure: https://twitter.com/AndreBerger787/status/1314205913901719553
Malibuflyer wrote:
didn’t know that engines actually read ADs ;-)
Everything is working against the pilot, luckily we are lucky ;-)
Not really… these things tend to be batch-related. That’s why an AD is an AD. You are supposed to implement it, generally ASAP.
EuroFlyer wrote:
could that have to do with the recent SB (or AD) concerning the crossflow assembly in 550 conti engines ?
Would be an extreme case of coincidence that a plane crashes for that reason only weeks after the AD has been published – didn’t know that engines actually read ADs ;-)
could that have to do with the recent SB (or AD) concerning the crossflow assembly in 550 conti engines ?
Loss of upper deck pressure at altitude <> full engine stoppage.
Another media source reports they tried to land at EBBR first. That seems to correspond with the track on FR24. Then the question remains: why such a high rate of descend ?
Already heard rumours he/she pulled at 1000’. That makes sense. At that altitude you’d still be IMC today and a conventional forced landing seems impossible.
