A friend of mine survived the following incident.
Level flight in 1000ft ground with an A365.
sudden heavy black smoke in cabin
no way to breath and no chance to look forward.
He switched Batt power out, nothing happened..
Fast desent, by looking out of the sideward window
heavy impact with running landing into a flat field
everybody went out and had the best breath of fresh air in their life.
What happened?
The cable wich is connecting the batterie with the alternator, was not correctly connected and fall down from the batt during flight.
Batt stands on a kind of plastic blade. Now the cable is burning the platic blade with the full power of alternator.
by switching out both batt and gen. the heavy smoke will stopped
after a few second.
so 2 points:
by smoke in cabin you need no other electrical equipment, you have no time.... went down as fast as you can.
so best way is to switch of both gen and batt.
You have no chance/time to decide where the smoke comes from...
During night time ops in hight altidude you have a real problem, in this case my friend won`t be my friend any more...
