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Swissair flight 111 crashed because of a fire that started in in flight entertainment system. Although isolated it still caused a fire that caused the highest d
by sschueller 9y ago
Swissair flight 111 crashed because of a fire that started in in flight entertainment system. Although isolated it still caused a fire that caused the highest death toll for the MD11 which was considered a very safe aircraft.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
- tptacek 9y agoIt crashed due to faulty wiring in the IFE, which started an electrical fire. It could just as easily have been the coffee maker.
- nsxwolf 9y agoWell, imagine a fire due to faulty wiring that is accidentally triggered by some hack. Maybe absurd but not impossible. Why mess with any in-flight system?
- beefield 9y agoWhy do you assume that it is more likely the hack causes a fire instead of preventing a fire? I mean, I would think that the most likely individual outcome of a hack would be shutdown of the system, which should reduce the likelyhood of weird things happening.
- InTheArena 9y agoThe MD-11 is considered a safe aircraft, because almost all airliners are very very safe. comparatively to the Airbus and Boeign equivalent, it is not viewed as a particularly safe aircraft, as it was derived from the DC-10 (which had a epically bad reputation). while a lot of the issues with the DC-10 were fixed, there longer length of the plane caused issue.s
- kakwa_ 9y agoActually, it was not that safe. To reduce fuel consumption, Douglas used a quite small tail for an aircraft that size. Consequently the MD-11 has to land at high speed which makes it prone to catastrophic bounced landing like the 2 Fedex crashes. Also, it was not produced for very long (compared to other aircrafts from Boeing or Airbus) and the fleet was either retired or converted to freighters quickly by airlines.