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But there can be a luggage fire? What fuse can you pull to disable that? I assume there are extinguishers for the luggage compartment? Put a GPS/Iridium suit

• Jtsummers 10y ago
  There are extinguishers in the cargo area. I'm not sure who manufactures it for the 777. The general setup is fire, smoke, and overheat detection systems throughout the aircraft. This information is relayed to the pilots. Some of the extinguishing mechanisms may be automatic (more common in military and not so common in commercial). Cargo areas probably use halon or similar.
• verelo 10y ago
  The point is that you should be able to disable anything that is connected to the planes electrical system, to stop fires and prevent damaged systems causing issues with other functional systems (i.e. broken GPS causing electrical surges should be disabled to ensure other controls continue to work). Unless your luggage is plugged in, this is something that ground based security should be assessing the risk of prior to placing it in the plane, followed by the redundant fire suppression systems in the luggage hold as a last resort, this should be fairly under control by the time the plane is in the air.