Looking at the high resolution photos, the red bags appear to me to
be containing rope. This would seem to be again to me that they
are bags containing nets for new pallets/ULDS. When you ship a stack
of pallets, you must have nets for them as well. I know after the
Arrow DC8 accident in MIA, the regulations were upgraded to state that
all nets had to be secured to the pallets in some way. But, when ULDS
are new, the nets have not been attached yet, they are loaded in
sacks and stowed on the pallets for shipment. Or does any one remember
having to get a new net for replacement? You had to open a sack, sometimes red, to get the new net. Could it be these were loaded on a
stack of empty pallets, said pallets shifted and the shifted pallets
hit an o2 bottle behind the interior fairing? By hitting the bottle, I mean
knocked the stem off.