Thanks for your expert views Sharkbit.
What's interesting is that the report seems to contradict it's own theory by stating that "Water is naturally present in aviation fuel and the investigators believe there may have been as much as five litres within this aircraft's fuel load. But the report says levels of water found in fuel recovered after the 17 January crash were very low for a Boeing 777." This you would think, would lead investigators away from the ice theory.
Also in one of the first BBC reports to come out after the crash, it stated that the planes captain said that all the aircrafts electronics had failed. Would ice cause this?
If ice were the cause and at the high altitudes that jet planes fly, you would have thought there would have been more instances of this type of problem occurring in the past in other aircraft.
Nemo
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