Saudi B773 smoke in cabin - carrying gasoline?

[b1lanc]

From Avherald. Have to ask - gasoline? Normal ops for Saudi?

A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 777-300, registration HZ-AK25 performing flight SV-116 (dep Jun 29th) from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) with 144 people on board and dangerous goods (mainly gasoline)...

[Herod]

Well, they were already on my no-fly list. This just puts them on my super-no-fly list.

[Chris2303]

A new version of coals to Newcastle?

[KelvinD]

Allegedly, this was possibly fuel in the tank of someone's Roller/Maserati/BMW or whatever

[listria]

Takes me back to the Aloha Combi with the pickup truck wobbling around on the other side of the curtains on the way from Honolulu to Christmas Island.

[CodyBlade]

they air flown their super-cars to London for the weekend.

To drag on the streets.

[Icelanta]

Herod,

Why would SV be in your No Fly list?
Standards are as high on SV as on the other ME3 ( and also on the AAI operated aircraft by the way)

Granted, no alcohol onboard, but anyone having a problem with that should not be in an aircraft, but in rehab.

[11Fan]

A number of years ago, someone had brought some gasoline on board a Uni Air MD-90 as carry on luggage and the result was a total hull loss.

ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 B-17912 Hualien Airport (HUN)

This could have turned out far worse.

[Herod]

Granted, no alcohol onboard, but anyone having a problem with that should not be in an aircraft, but in rehab.

That's a bit personal, and a wrong assumption. As it happens, I'm teetotal.

[Basil]

Originally Posted by Icelanta

Granted, no alcohol onboard, but anyone having a problem with that should not be in an aircraft, but in rehab.

Really? There isn't enough clinic space to accommodate everyone who likes a glass of wine with dinner.
Just because you get done over in Iceland is no reason to deny everyone else a glass of wine.

[mivens]

A couple of buskers managed to get a generator full of petrol under their seat on a BA flight out of Naples once.

And there was this Shenzhen Airlines arson attempt last year, where a passenger used petrol to set fire to his seat on approach.

[Wageslave]

I rather think that a gasoline fire would have produced substantially more worrying symptoms than mere smoke in the cabin, don't you?