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As the airline seeks to revitalize and reinvent itself as a global carrier to rival the very best, Campbell Wilson will have to navigate a minefield of operational challenges, cultural shifts, and the imperative of modernising a vast, ageing fleet.

Expectedly, the preliminary report has unleashed a tsunami of discussions, debates and discourse on mainstream and social media, but regrettably, most of it being illogical and/or insensitive.

AVIATHÈQUE joins the world in mourning the loss of two icons, twelve days apart in the month of June: Frederick Forsyth and Frederick Smith; one a chronicler of suspense and master storyteller, the other, a visionary who reimagined global connectivity.

So according to @HeyFixThis, the probable cause [for loss of thrust on both engines at take-off], "... was a combination of Fuel Shutoff Valve (FSOV) activation due to a cascading electrical system failure".

The accident aircraft: VT-ANB (Picture Credit: András Soós/Planespotters.net) “..social media has many armchair specialists .. I am...