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Old 16th Jul 2013, 23:40
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Hi kwh,
There are no procedures other than fire-fighting, but alas, no hazmat, full face masks and oxygen available for the crew for fighting internal FST epoxy generated composite fires as, such FST hazardous and flammable epoxies for interiors were banned by a once useful FAA back in the mid-80's. I had worked on FST since early 70's and it took that long for FAA to issue an epoxy banning edict.
In the interim there were FST fatalities, for example the Airtours 737 as Manchester plus a number of others such as Swissair 111 over Canada, which sadly crashed with all killed, it was an MD-11. I refer you to British AAIB for their reports, there were plenty of others in various countries. Most recently I worked as an expert witness concerning the UPS Dubai crash, a 747-400F. There were others in freight area as regs are either very loose of non existent.
Hope that this helps,
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