Just like it happens with cars, obscure plane parts wear out. Take for example an incident that happened in 2008, when a 747 cable burned out after the protective covering was worn off due to friction against a bolt.
Take a look at this final report on this 747 smoke event on Eva Airways Flight BR67 at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport.
Prior to this event, Boeing had sent out a service Letter to inform operators of the potential fire hazard from the arcing of a wire bundle which might result in a fire on Corrosion Inhibiting Compound (CIC) contaminated insulation blankets. They predicted it. It happened.
So as we think about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. There is always the possibility that some small component like the one below failed, and led to something catastrophic. What if the pilots were overcome by smoke in the cabin? I am not saying that this DID happen, I am only saying there are myriad small parts that can lead to catastrophic events. It makes sense to look at any and all Boeing 777 safety advisories, in case they might predict some small event that cascaded into disaster.
Thanks to input from John King.
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An Alaska Airlines flight from Washington D.C. to Portland, Oregon suffered a cracked windshield, with 159 passengers and 6 crew onboard. Despite the crack the crew of the Boeing 737 landed safely.
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A Lufthansa flight with 190 passengers on board made an emergency landing Monday in Rhodes after reporting smoke in the cabin, according to the operator of Greek regional airports, Fraport.
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While no one was injured, most of the mishaps required emergency landings or diversions. One safety expert said the incidents were not the result of “systemic problems.”
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In Latham, the governor honored upstate natives Casey Frankoski and John Grassia who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
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A Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Dubai has been diverted to Rhodes where it landed just before 6 p.m. Monday.
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Shamiso Mosaka was removed from a flight by police officers after crew said she was being “abusive”.
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International airlines often do not file the marketed destination as their flight plan destination. Here’s how and why a “redispatch” works.
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Articles and videos about Gila Bend Municipal Airport plane crash kills 1, injures another on FOX 10 Phoenix.
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US-based Deep Sea Vision, which claimed to have found Amelia Earhart’s long lost plane on the Pacific Ocean floor, says it will a use craft called a Hugin 6000 to hunt for the missing MH370 plane
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One person is dead and another is in serious condition following a small plane crash near Gila River Municipal Airport.
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One person died and another was injured following a plane crash Sunday morning at Gila Bend Municipal Airport.
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A DEEP sea exploration company has promised to send a state-of-the-art underwater drone to the bottom of the sea to finally solve the MH370 mystery. Over a decade ago, the Malaysian Airlines flight…
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Reba McEntire remembered her former bandmates and tour manager on the anniversary of the fatal plane crash that took their lives.
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ON March 17, 1957, a presidential plane crash at Mount Manunggal, the highest mountain peak in Cebu, Central Philippines, took the life of 50-year-old President Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay, the seventh president of the Philippines, and 25 others traveling with him.
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Last Wednesday the Defence Secretary Grant Shapps was travelling on a Dassault 900LX, RAF aircraft which was attacked by electronic warfare in a jamming
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The plane landed safely, but it was the latest in a string of incidents for both United and the troubled airplane maker Boeing
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Less than a minute into the flight, one engine sputtered and then the next
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