I read somewhere else that actually it would be much better to be in a carbon fibre aircraft than in aluminium one with this sort of ELT battery fire. First of all fire in NOT self-sustaining, carbon fuselage tends to char and therefore blocks further propagation of fire but aluminium loses its tensile strength with temperature much faster, by 500 deg, it lost most of its strength.
Last edited by olasek; 16th July 2013 at 20:14.