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Fire is a strange one; it is thought in a lot of cases they couldn't reach the surface in time even if the airport was ideally located (e.g. Swissair Flight 111).[/i]
There were three Nimrods, one made it, one ditched and one didn't.
OK not a modern design and based on the Comet but in each case the time from fire to catastrophe was extremely short. Of the one that landed and the one that ditched, neither was at a normal transit altitude when the emergency occurred.