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Old 2nd Aug 2013, 17:16
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NWA SLF
 
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It's the old news axiom dog bites man is not news, man bites dog is news. Frequently hear of various airliners making unscheduled/emergency landing due to cockpit smoke, but they are back page slow news day fillers. Smoke in a 787 overwhelms even the birth of Prince George (naw, even here in a colony fighting to rid themselves of control by another George it overrode everything). But now I read, "Oh, yeah, there have been other ELT fires." To be honest the current alert to travelers resulting from intelligence sources that a terrorist attack planned very soon overrides thoughts of there maybe being an in flight 787 fire or an uncontained A-380 engine explosion that damages much of a wing structure. Scarier yet is seeing the evac photos of people carrying their luggage away from the emergency escape slides. Those are all people who could have blocked my exit and killed me as sure as if they shot me.
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