No equivalence as the OP car is not on the highway, but private railway property

REE have put out their own report into the event.

Repeating myself (and others) here - delighted for those places, residents and visitors on the Welsh side of the Severn.  How about sorting out the South Gloucestershire side too where there's a moribund station with latent potential especially if a little work is done over and above just fixing the station, and where there's a major employment area that's a road congestion nightmare that the railway passes and ignores.

I've got a very on/off connection here at the moment ... will take a look when at my next hotel later today unless it's sorted by someone else by then.

Now done. 

15:18 Hereford to London Paddington due 18:29 will be terminated at Reading.
This is due to train crew being delayed.
Last Updated:20/06/2025 17:49

Fourth day running the halts train hasn't served the north Cotswolds. And the following 16:58 Paddington to Great Malvern service which is scheduled to cover these stations has been sitting at Portobello Junction since 17:01 (is now 17:46) due to a trackside fire - and [edit] has just moved after a delay of 46 minutes

Friday June 20

...was looking good until

17:04 Didcot Parkway to Evesham due 18:23 will be terminated at Oxford.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
Last Updated:20/06/2025 16:57

18:51 Evesham to Oxford due 19:50 will be cancelled.
This is due to more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time.
Last Updated:20/06/2025 16:57

Whilst the following is speculation, it's informed by reading/watching analysis from professionals in the airline industry.

Bird strikes now seem less likely given that there has been an official announcement that no bird carcass debris was found on the runway or immediately beyond it.

Dual engine 'failure' still seems the most likely cause, although this 'failure' now seems unlikely to have been due to external factors. Nearly all informed professionals have agreed that the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) deployed. This would happen automatically in three scenarios at the stage of flight of this aircraft:

- If it detected complete failure of flight critical electrical systems.
- Very low/no pressure in all three of the hydraulic systems that are on the 787.
- Engine thrust on both engines dropping below idle.

For one (or more) of those to happen at this stage of flight, without an external factor, is almost unheard of.

Now, I don't know if the pilots could instigate one or more of those failures accidentally. Pilot error is a leading cause of air accidents. But it's usually errors in responding to something the aircraft is doing or telling them.

From the flight dynamics there's no evidence that just one engine 'failed'. There would be almost immediate asymmetric thrust causing the plane to yaw. So, it's unlikely the pilots shut down the wrong engine.

There's been analysis of the landing gear position. That suggest that 'gear up' was selected but the process didn't complete. The trucks had swivelled forward, as they are meant to do before they are stowed. Not completing their retraction suggests loss of hydraulic power.

The surviving passenger mentioned lights flickering before the crash. Eye witness accounts are notoriously unreliable, particularly from someone who has survived a traumatic event. But if there was light flickering that suggest an electrical issue.

So with possible hydraulic issues and potential electrical issues that begins to point to a loss of power generation for those systems. That can only mean both engines 'failed' almost simultaneously. As I said, almost unheard of. Even with US Airways Flight 1549 the engines didn't spool down in tandem. One of their engines briefly spooled back up.

Pictures of the post crash wreckage also appear to show the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) door partially open. This could of course be post crash damage, but if the APU was being deployed this further suggest a complete loss of power from the engines. The RAT provides power for critical systems. The APU provides electrical power for more systems to come back online. On this flight though there wouldn't have been enough time for the APU to fully start up.

It seems that something in this plane decided to shut down both engines. There has been a lot of technical explanations on specialist forums, and from professionals on social media, that explain how this might have happened. It wouldn't surprise me to hear in the preliminary report that a system controlling engine function or fuel delivery designed to do one thing, erroneously did another. Or activated when it shouldn't have.

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There are a number of news reports based on this document, some of them as hard to make sense of as it is.

Apologies - I did 'report to moderator' Graham's reply to my picture post in an attempt to get my post removed (you can't report your own posts ), as I realised it was spoiling what started off as a nice thread. Perhaps someone can split these off into a separate thread?

21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:07
19/06/25 21:45 Penzance to London Paddington due 05:07 has been delayed at Penzance and is now 130 minutes late.
This is due to a fault on this train

Currently left Reading 84 minutes late (having left Newton Abbot 143 minutes down)

OK ... I have just looked at the server and it seems heavily overloaded ... looks like a (distributed) denial of service which probably means that certain things get blocked.   I have add some locations to my "naught boy" list and expect the issues to be reduced at least.  Watching ...