Originally Posted by
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True, everyone got off BA38 safely, but that doesn’t exclude the possibility that human error contributed to the event in the first place. Until the official report comes out, we cannot say why those engines failed in the way they did. Many a crew displayed remarkable airmanship in dealing with a situation, only to find out later that they contributed to the cause of the accident in the first place.
There are also plenty of scenarios in which seemingly inoccuous changes in routine which would not cause comment, have subsequently been shown to inadvertently ontribute to accidents. There are also a lot of cases where the operators written procedures that were followed by a crew have contributed. Any of these are possible.
A small point of semantics : the last comment from the AAIB was that the engines had not failed, and they appeared to be delivering a level of thrust above "flight idle" (ie the engines were under some level of control) however the amount of power available was not apparently adequate for the way the aircraft was configured for landing.