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Old 7th Aug 2008, 03:07
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If they had the problem at high altitude of course they would return to LAX. You don't complicate things by landing at unfamiliar runways with minimal facilities to save a few miles flying especially if you are at cruising altitude. I don't know why the masks dropped. I haven't flown the B757 in 5 years but I had a similar smoke in cabin and cockpit emergency return to MIA and after shutting down the aux busses for electrical smoke which wasn't even a memory item then, but was after I filled out my report, landed with normal pressurisation. I recall a smoke removal check list that has you turn off the packs, one at a time, to see if it is the cause. Also bringing the cabin up to get the smoke out and manual and opening outflow valve manually if that didn't work. Maybe the cabin got above 14,000 ft and automatically dumped the masks if it got to that point. It ended up fine so good job guys.
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