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Old 19th December 2002 | 03:42
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Wino
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Glueball,
you got a short memory.
Swissair MD11 went into the pond just 2 years ago or so.
SouthAfrican 747 went into the ocean when a cargo fire which had been burning for hours finally burned through the aircraft.

PANAM lost a 707 to a cargo fire, they almost made it the airplane broke up on downwind I think to Boston.

Lots more 3 and 4 engine aircraft have been lost to on board fires than twins have gone down from a failure of the second enigne (excluding fuel starvation or complete crew stupidity)

Bout time the standards were tightened as I was saying....

Cheers
WIno
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