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Old 21st August 2007 | 14:14
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411A
 
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Saudia is now talking about it in their indoc and recurrent safety courses. Airplane landed and was brought to a stop, still pressurized engines running, crew over come by smoke, no one was able to open the doors.
Generally correct, and is supported by the investigation performed by Lockheed folks (among others), a few I knew personally.
The specific ignition source of the fire is still unknown.
However, for the fire to have been propagated by skydrol 'mist', the ignition source would have had to have been very hot, and not even engine two N3 bleed air is hot enough.
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