What a nightmare. Our emergency checklists for smoke/fire in the airplane is to put on smoke goggles+oxygen masks and then land immediately, whether the emergency checklist is finished or not.
Is most of the same insulation etc built into the cargo MD-11s? Without the entertainment systems, which was apparently not up to normal electrical specs as required by McDonnell Douglas, would the fire have started?
A show about the terrible ship explosion in Halifax harbor came on here the other night. Such a series of disasters for the area up there.