About 20 years ago offshore Sarawak in an SA330 Puma, FL50 nice and cool, smell of smoke; we both looked at each other then back to see the cabin already full of smoke with only the front few passengers visible, eyes like the South Park kids
and what was worse there was a dull orange glow from the rear of the cabin.
Into auto, strangely all the training fell into place... after about 3000ft the lights came on to show both MGB fan belts gone, so a fan seizure.... MGB temp visibly climbed off scale as the oil boiled but we got on to a barge a few miles off; if we'd been below 3000 we'd have been in the water. The funny thing in hindsight was that all the pax were clutching every single one of their belongings [including an umbrella which nearly ended my eyesight tests] as they piled out.
The fiery glow was the sunlight through the rear windows on the passengers' orange ear defenders....
The barge we landed on was called the Charley Graves so at least when we returned with newly fitted MGB we could say we were back from the Graves
