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Old 18th Mar 2014, 01:06
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Lost in Saigon

ACARS is not all knowing. If there is un-annuciated fire, ACARS will not know about it and will not report it.

How could it?
That's kind of the whole point of ACARS - to report issues. If a fire affected a single system somewhere, ACARS would have reported it.

See, for example, the 25 automatic messages sent from AF447's ACARS system during its 4 minutes of catastrophic issues
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