BA Heathrow Crash Speculation

It's been over a week now since British Airways Flight 38 executed a "Land and Hold Short" at Heathrow Airport in London. Reading briefs from the NTSB (wierd that they're involved) would lead you quite a ways from early speculation the day of and after this accident.

That's what I hate about this industry. Everyone is an expert. Especially those who have little operational knowledge of aviation. Initial reports indicated both engines failed. First of all, those Trent 800s are two of the most reliable engines in the world. Your car engine has a better chacne of shutting down unsuspected than one of these. And both...simultaneously? Fat chance. Then blow harts started throwing around conjecture like fuel starvation and bird strikes. Both of these seemed far fetch for me. I always had a gut feeling something else was going on.

Then, the NTSB indicated through a brief that while established on final, the autothrottle called for an increase in thrust, yet the engines did not respond. The flight crew attempted manual input with nominal thrust increase. Grass field, here we come. This is the type of 'systems' issue I was truly expecting from this incident. Somewhere between autothrottle, fadec, windows vista, and atari is where this took place.

It's the talking heads of the cable news networks that make my head explode when any type of aviation incident occurs. Please, rely on credible sources before you put just any crap on the air!