It is. You can find a list of crashes because of a fire in the cargo hold here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commerc

It is. You can find a list of crashes because of a fire in the cargo hold here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident... Search for "cargo hold" to see the number of planes that have gone down due to an event in the cargo hold. This ban is simple, it is to hurt DBX air carriers which EU and US air carriers have complained about for a long time. DBX based air carriers have newer planes, better service, better food, and shorter legs. This eats into first class and business class revenue of major EU and US carriers.