lame1
if it had caught on fire,would have caused the a/c to crash.The fact that it was highly flammable would have increased the intensity of the fire in the hold,resulting in ONE LARGE FIRE.
You have no idea at all what you are talking about. How exactly would it have caused the aircraft to crash? It was found sitting on the fuselage skin. Having burned a hole in that, and fallen through it, how does it then cause the aircraft to crash? Aircraft have sustained enormous damage and continued flying - for example the United 747 that lost most of the forward fusleage skin above the cargo door, or the HS125 that got hit by a SAM and had an engine blown off the airframe. If you really were a LAME, you would know about redundancy in an aircraft structure. And you still haven't explained how this "device" was going to ignite itself... oh and by the way, what does a fire need to sustain itself? And how much of that is there at altitude...???
mootyman
well your little hole that would have burned straight through the skin would have the same effect on the aircraft structure.
What utter crap. Ever seen the Aloha Airlines 737 that lost the top half of the forward fuselage, down as far as the floor? That one kept flying, and landed safely. You will seldom see an aircraft with more damage on it than that.
Here's some pictures for you:
http://www.aloha.net/~icarus/
http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/ua811/photo.shtml