Following is an excerpt from a press report found on an aviation website with two possible and completely tinfoil hat free explanations. It's a great aviation website as most who post there are related in some way to aviation.
Peter Goelz, former managing director of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, said investigators would most likely look for evidence of fuel contamination.
"It's not unusual to lose one engine. It is unusual to lose both," Goelz said. "One of the first things you always look at is fuel contamination."
Goelz said he understood that both engines had recently had work done on them to suppress noise. Within the last few weeks, he said, hush kits _ noise-suppression devices _ were supplied to the engines.
The United States sent four investigators to Venezuela to help.
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