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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
The 777 had the fuel intake from the tanks freeze over on approach to Heathrow. I don’t think that was an obvious problem: the intake was a flat hexagonal structure of smaller inlets that allowed the ice to form over. The fix was to stagger the smaller inlets so ice couldn’t form.