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I have no flying experience but if there was a fire in the cargo hold wouldn't the crew at least send a message? I thought this flight veered off the flight pat

• kaelinl 4y ago
  Yes, my understanding (as purely a bystander) is that even the most aggressive fires in the past have allowed time for a mayday. See for example UPS flight 6, with a huge uncontrolled lithium battery fire: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6 In general, onboard fires are one of the most dangerous scenarios in-flight, as I understand it. Crews are trained extensively for it. I think this is, in part, what the analysis in the article concludes — even a fire would have to cause a very specific, never-before-seen combination of failures to lead to the outcomes observed from the outside.
• Merad 4y ago
  They should, but there have certainly been aircraft disasters where the pilots didn't exactly do what they were supposed to do.