Originally Posted by
Sailvi767 View Post
Yes, they even went into holding with a fire onboard.
Memory says they went into a hold to dump fuel - it wasn't the checklist that delayed landing, it was trying to get down to max landing weight (a bad idea in retrospect).
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This is, as I recall, incorrect. Firstly the crew were in no way aware of the awful future for what they thought was a simple electrical smoke issue.
Secondly, as RBF has posted, there would have been no way the situation could have been saved as there just was not enough time from initiating the descent to losing complete control. I do not recall ANY 'holding'.
They were most definitely doomed at the outset.
The whole event begs the question of whether the somewhat 'relaxed' approach nowadays to 'fumes events' is wise?