Boeing 777 - it's quite safe as long as you are flying to somewhere warm

[scooterscot]

Wonder where the affected aircraft got their fuel from.

[Paddy]

The old 747s used to pour condensation in the cockpit while landing. First officer would be using one hand with a chamois to wipe the bay windows with other on the throttle.

[sasguru]

I'm glad these planes all have the same amount of flying hours on the clock.

OK , OK 0.002 is an estimate. And why are the flying hours significant? It's not a metal fatigue problem, is it?
In any case I, for one, would not be worrying over much about flying in a 777-Trent plane.

[Svalbaard]

So when was the last time you went on a flight and had a choice of which plane you went on?

Granted, intercontinental you have a choice of many carriers but internal you'd be hard pushed to have the choice of planes.

[DaveB]

So what's needed is a heater for fuel prior to use to make sure optimum temperature is achieved. A small reservoir will also be required I guess for sudden fuel consumption, i.e. landing.

Hard to believe something like this does not already exist, FMEA would have shown this.

This is what the oil/fuel heat exchanger is meant to do. It uses heat from the engine oil to warm the fuel before it it pumped into the engine. Since the engines were being run at idle for prolonged periods the oil wasnt hot enough to warm the fuel properly so residual ice crystals in the fuel made it into the injection system and blocked it.

[Menelaus]

Boeing / Airbus

Surely though Airbus have the system that someone who I worked with years ago referred to as "Fly By Wire, Die By Fire"?