Speaking of lighting open fires in the cabin some airliners remove the seats and can carry many more passengers than would normally be carried. While working in Iran, I was dating a Flight Attendant from Lufthansa. She told me about not only the seat removal but she also indicated that the Muslim passengers had no idea how to use the Western style toilets on the aircraft. After totally contaminating the toilets they selected a common area at the back of the cabin and used that as a communal toilet. The stench was so bad that the crew crowded onto the flight deck or the upper deck and went on Oxygen. When the plane returned to Frankfurt they took it out of revenue service and stripped the aircraft completely down and cleaned it up and treated the inner skins and structure for corrosion.

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Small point, but in the L1011, the controls are bussed together, as they are in most aircraft.. .Even with Only D sys remaining, unless you pull the roll and pitch disconect handles, the a/c would be flyable from the left side as well.

Also the flying controls are bussed together at the back end of the a/c with an aft 'coupler' which also can be disconnected with a switch selection on the overhead panel.. .Regds

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TR4A was exactly correct in his post!!

Another note, the chap that said the tires don't get too cold at altitude probably didn't take in to consideration, that during landing and applying brakes, the tires heat back up!!. .Big chunks of ice can form inside a tire if the moisture content is too high and that takes a lot of heat energy to melt after landing and, during rollout before the tires have warmed up, this could indeed cause a serious imbalance!