We are at cross purposes BOAC, you are talking about what actually happened and I am talking about valid reasons not to proceed over the Atlantic in the event that the threat to set fire to the aircraft was carried out, particularly I was rebutting WHBM's idea that it would be safe to continue regardless as, according to WHBM, the aircraft would be able to reach a safe landing even if on fire.
Never intended to suggest an emergency descent based on
just the threat, never entered the speculation about where or when the threat was received.
that decision would have been taken in a measured way and not, I think, in a
panic.
Another area of speculation I never entered and I never mentioned 'panic' either, everything I said was related to the possibility of an actual cabin fire in progress, I repeat, nothing I wrote was intended to be comment on what actually happened, I simply pointed out that they had chosen to divert prior to heading out over the Atlantic where their options would have been greatly reduced.