There was a Federal Experess DC-10 which landed at Stewart Airport in Newburg, NY back in September of 1996. The aircraft was at cruise altitude (FL 330) travelling from Memphis to Boston when smoke alarms in the cockpit went off signalling a fire in the cargo area. It took about 19 minutes to get the plane on the ground, and the crew used the emergency egress cables to escape out of the cockpit windows. Fortunately there were no fatalities. Flames broke through the fuselage within a minute of them touching down. The plane burned itself in half on the runway. If they were airborne for just two more minutes, they probably would not have made it.
http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/1998/AAR9803.pdf#search='dc10%20newburgh%20fire'