Across the African continent over many centuries there has been a phenomena known as
Spontaneous Human Combustion (basically when a person just suddenly ignites).
So apparently frequent were these episodes (at one point) and so widespread, that they became an accepted part of African culture. It is a phenomena which is believed by many tribes to be the result of supernatural witchcraft!
Trouble is, whenever this sort of thing happens there is never a scientific team on hand to verify what's going on and so we still don't know enough about it.
Carried a 5 man raft in the footrest area of a Bell 206 (dual pedals obviously removed) for a number of years flying off the African coast and never had an incident.
I heard that when Mercedes did their branded version on one of the Eurocopter models that they were talking about caibin and cockpit airbags but, I also heard they had an Irishman leading their design team at the time.
Hope this helps.
