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Old 6th Aug 2016, 12:45
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I'm aware that the cabin didn't breach, but how could the crew have possibly known that it wouldn't? Look at how quickly the cabins have breached in most comparable situations, including Okinawa, Manchester, and the most recent case on the same type... To sit there and do nothing with a raging fire is extraordinary negligence. Had the fire penetrated, there is no way they could have evacuated everyone. It was blind luck that nobody was lost as a result of this failure to make a decision.
Single events are always open to variations in causes and results.

My point was a general comment on the data having to do with the significance of opening doors to evacuate and after that what you call a breach.

To me the burn through breach from a ground pool fire would look a lot different than the result pics that one sees along the top of the fuselage. I'm not saying an initiating fire breach never happens, but just that opening doors followed by a fire entrance happens more often in a time frame.

just thinking as a passenger, I like the time to think as long as I can still breathe good air. I make no judgments about the crew actions and leave that to the experts who trained them.
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