Msg received today from a usually reliable source...
The UPS guys I've talked to in ANC tell a chilling story about this accident. The pilots were so overwhelmed with smoke in the cockpit that they couldn't even see to tune their radios, and couldn't tell their altitude, heading, etc, never mind find the airport. The pilots were asking the tower to tell them their height above the ground and heading when they crashed. UPS apparently removed the full face masks from the airplanes and replaced them with the old style mask and smoke goggles! They also don't have cockpit doors on any of their airplanes. When they dump the cabin to fight a fire (no main deck fire suppression system like on the FedEx MD-11’s), there is no door to wall off the flames and smoke, so guess where it ends up!