This is amazing, thank you so much for your help. I think this may also give birth to a future general piece about safety recommendations and how they are followed up and enacted. I can't believe I forgot about the "Lessons Learned" site - I wish I had remembered that before I got sucked into reading the reports. :-)
Things like Mayday/ACI and lightweight articles definitely give the impression that after a disaster, "aviation" is all like "oh my gosh, look at this terrible disaster, we must immediately sort our crap out" and lo and behold, changes are made and flying is much safer, and that that particular cause doesn't happen again because of course, "lessons have been learned".
I had even thought this would be a good topic for an ebook for nervous flyers, so I started looking into incidents that would make good chapters and was a bit perturbed to discover that actually such a book probably wasn't such a good idea! But then I probably shouldn't have started my research by looking into cargo doors...
But then then I recently found myself reassuring a nervous flyer after the Las Vegas fire with platitudes about learning lessons and how the improvements between the Manchester disaster and the later Air France, Air China and this BA evacuation showed how much things had improved, which made me thoughtful and was what triggered revisiting my idea as I thought that the fires in the early 80s were actually good examples of "lessons learned"....
In the course of my research I have also found about a PWA Flight 501 in 1984, a runway fire on a 737 caused by fuel tank rupture, which I hadn't heard of before.
So although I am not now convinced I will be showing my piece to any nervous flyers, I am hoping it will be an interesting description of a disaster and the causes and effects of it instead, aimed at "interested non-professionals"...