EgyptAir voice recorder indicates attempt to put out fire before crash

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Audio from the flight deck voice recorder of EgyptAir MS804 indicates an attempt to put out a fire on board the jet before it crashed into the Mediterranean, sources on the investigation committee said on Tuesday.

The Airbus A320 plunged into the eastern Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo on May 19. All 66 people on board were killed. The cause of the crash remains unknown.

Earlier analysis of the plane's flight data recorder showed there had been smoke in the lavatory and avionics bay while recovered wreckage from the jet's front section showed signs of high temperature damage and soot.

The flight deck recorder, taken to Cairo this week after being repaired at laboratories belonging to France's BEA aircraft accident agency, further indicate that a fire took hold of the plane in its final moments, the sources said.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egyptair-airplane-idUSKCN0ZL1RT

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World | Tue Jul 5, 2016 12:50pm EDT

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It's beginning to sound kind of like Swissair 111.

Nothing scarier than an in-flight fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111

[Blue_Tires]

8. This fire was much more sudden

And catastrophic than Swissair

[leftynyc]

11. How do you know that? (n/t)

[Blue_Tires]

13. Because the crew never had time to

even send a distress call to ATC...

And if it's true the data recorders stopped when they were still at 37k feet, this got out of hand moments after they first detected fire.

[leftynyc]

14. I hadn't heard about the

data recorders stopping while that high up. Where did you get that info?

[Blue_Tires]

15. These folks are on top of everything

http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=606909

[leftynyc]

16. Thanks for the link

I love watching those who actually know what they're talking about speculate - it cuts down on so much bullshit. Like a puzzle - if they eliminate this cause, and that cause - eventually you get the truth.

[catbyte]

2. This will be a major disappointment to Trump if it turns out to be a horrible accident

and not some evil Muslim terrorist plot.

[PJMcK]

3. Wow, that must have been terrifying

To be flying on a plane that's on fire must have been horrible! Those people must have been frightened beyond belief.

I was on a cruise ship that had a massive engine room fire several hundred miles at sea at night. The captain ordered all passengers to their muster stations and the lifeboats were prepared to be deployed. Eventually, the fire was contained and we didn't have to leave the ship. A tug boat came out to sea and towed the ship back to Bermuda. The cruise company provided excellent service and accommodations and paid for everyone's flights home along with other travel costs. And they threw in a free week's cruise. My point is, there were a lot of frightened people on the ship that night, (James Cameron's film, "Titanic," had opened a year or so earlier).

The poor people on the EgyptAir plane must have faced an horrific ordeal as the crew fought the fire and tried to keep the plane in the air. Sadly, their trip ended tragically.

[Yo_Mama]

6. It seems to have been a cockpit fire - one may hope the passengers didn't suffer as long

I agree, utterly horrible.

[jtuck004]

7. Lithium battery transport in 2016 - Update The ICAO Council has confirmed the recommendation of the

Lithium battery transport in 2016 - Update
The ICAO Council has confirmed the recommendation of the ICAO Air Navigation Commission (ANC) that prohibits, on an interim basis, lithium ion batteries (UN 3480, PI 965 only) as cargo on passenger aircraft. This prohibition is effective 1 April 2016.

http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/cargo/dgr/Pages/lithium-batteries.aspx

I suspect something like this, and perhaps took down MH370 as well.

[Yo_Mama]

17. If these had been responsible, the fire would not have been forward, which it was.

Smoke alarms in the cargo section would have been first detected.

Whatever happened, it rapidly produced a terrible situation, and it was concentrated forward.

Admittedly there is not nearly enough information to even guess at the cause yet, but there is enough information to exclude an event in cargo storage.

The best evidence that it wasn't deliberate is that no one has claimed the action - although the same was true for Lockerbie, so I guess that's not conclusive.

These things take a long, long time. Just getting the wreckage off the seabed is incredibly difficult.

[dembotoz]

9. so starting up the bombers before you know the facts is a bad idea....who woulda thunk

[Blue_Tires]

10. fwiw, while malicious intent is unlikely it isn't ruled out 100% yet

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. Huge, huge hat tip to the people who have been working relentlessly

first, to recover the voice and data recorders, and then, to retrieve the information stored in both devices.

They will stop at nothing to know what happened.

Thanks for the thread, Eugene.