PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - EgyptAir 804 disappears from radar Paris-Cairo
Old 23rd May 2016, 18:32
  #646 (permalink)  
Coagie
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Atlanta, GA USA
Age: 60
Posts: 183
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I suppose there would have been an ACARS message if a breaker tripped on the window heating circuit, but if wiring grounded out, it may have melted quick enoungh, where it un-grounded itself quick enough, where the current draw never got high enough to trip the breaker on such a high current circuit. Depending on the engineering, a breaker may not trip until the current draw is double or triple the normal current draw.
Coagie is offline