Feathers
"If"... Yes, if it was like that they were doomed anyway. But what if it wasn't?
They didn't follow Boeing procedures. Not that I blame them, I would have done the same, it's just that with hindsight I realize that it might have been better to stay at 250. Maybe that would have suppressed the fire enough to let the outflow valves cleared the smoke and they could have been better prepared for the landing.
Maybe...
Smilin_Ed
"What would have helped these poor guys more than anything else is a third (or fourth or fifth) crewmember to go find the fire and try to put it out.
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Have you ever looked down in a fully loaded 747? Even if there's no fire you can hardly walk along the pallets... Read some of Guppy's posts... he knows what he's talking about. They could have had 10 guys from NYFD as jump seaters and with the equipment we carry it still wouldn't have helped.