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| aargee:
I think more wreckage is required (yeah, really?) and if there is evidence of fire, especially if there are fuselage remnants, that will start to mount up a case for a hot burning fire that killed off the avionics. I reckon there would have been lots and lots of simulator runs with scenarios for this disappearance and it's all still conjecture. |
| Psi:
Yes, finding some parts that show signs of fire damage would make the lithium battery fire theory pretty much proven. But its also possible that the lithium batteries just smoldered producing lots of fumes but no actual fire. In that case there would be no fire damage to find. Finding the batteries themselves would be the only way, and they would have reacted to the salt water anyway so proving what happened when would be very difficult. |
| pickle9000:
Was that other fire that burnt on ground figured out? That was a 777 as well. |
| kosmonooit:
I think a fire on board can be ruled out, there is no way it would have continued to fly for such a long time with a Fire on Board, although perhaps there was a localised fire that produced toxic fumes and then petered out or was extinguished. Also control and power circuits would go in a big fire, and Al melts real easy as anyone who has tried to weld it knows, so the fuselage would be compromised. The range is consistent with the fuel load, what I want to know is are/were the relevant tanks auto-selected as required? Back in my piloting days, I had to manually select wing and center tanks to keep the aircraft balanced (single engine) But in aircraft fires, its the fumes that kill long before the heat. |
| wasyoungonce:
Exactly...the Helderberg, a SA 747 airliner & cargo plane, crashed ~ 1987 from an onboard fire (from cargo area). Once fire detected....it didn't stay flying for long. There have been a few Aircraft fires, suffice to say, they burn pretty rapidly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Airways_Flight_295 |
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