Simply put the aircraft had the aviation equivalent of a cardiac arrest because some of the fuel failed to melt and blocked the supply line at the end of a long flight from Beijing to London, during which the plane travelled through unusually cold airspace over Siberia.

简单地从飞机制造角度来说，这起事故与心脏停搏的原理是相同的，因为在从北京飞往伦敦的长途航行过程中，飞机穿越了西伯利亚的冷空气层，于是经过长距离的航行之后部分燃料没能完全融化，燃料输送管线就被堵塞了。

This crash has echoes of the disaster in which 288 people on board an Air France Airbus 330 died. That plane, another long-haul workhorse, crashed into the Atlantic en-route from Rio de Janeiro in June 2009 killing 228 people.

这起事故与法国航空公司造成288人遇难的空客330解体事故很类似。法航失事飞机也是经过了远距离航行，2009年6月它从里约热内卢出发，在大西洋坠机，机上288名乘客和机组人员无一幸免于难。

A variety of explanations have been given for the Air France crash, with investigators finding that the plane’s speed sensors were giving an incorrect reading.

当时由于调查人员发现飞机的速度传感器失灵，关于法航坠机事故引发了各种原因的猜测。

But with this crash involving a different aircraft, it will take several months before investigators can ascertain the cause.

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