[Paul Thompson 'Hooligan']

Hmmmm - I was once told (most likely a story) of a Concorde Pilot that pushed his luck with fuel quantity. They did not flame out in the air, but I believe they did after landing whilst taxing, or had so little fuel aboard that someone (captain?) was somewhat 'reprimanded' afterwards... (note I was told this some 20 yrs ago if that dates it)

Anyway, back to the case in hand.....

Whats your vote for the reason for this latest event??

1) HUMAN ERROR - NOT necessarily the captain/air-crew..

2) TECHY ERROR - i.e Electronic systems/software failure/glitch..

3) MECHANICAL FAILURE - failure of a physical/mechanical component(s)..

My money is currently on '1' Human error, with the redundancy and extensive testing of systems I find '2' hard to believe and I think it unlikely that with the dual redundancy built into flight control systems that '3' is likely either...

Anyone else....??