CRASH investigators in the UK are running tests to determine whether ice can build up in aircraft fuel lines and stop the flow. An inquiry into the loss of power that caused a Boeing 777 to crash land at London’s Heathrow airport in January found that ice may have blocked its fuel pipes.
Yet the plane had not been flying in unusually cold conditions, the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch found after comparing conditions on 141,000 other B777 flights.
What had differed on the flight in question, however, was the far longer time the fuel stayed below 0 °C…
