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Which occasionally does happen, i suppose. now im going to go inside to give you a look at what it looks like inside the cargo hold. there are two cargo compartments in the boeing 737. theres another one in the aft at the back, its a smaller one. this is where all your bags go. its about 30 feet long, this bigger one, about eight feet wide. you can see if a luggage worker worked a long day, hes waiting for bags to arrive, he can sit right here. have a soft bag with a pillow and maybe just doze o...

>> weve been given access to this boeing 737 and well show you how the cargo compartment works and what it looks like. usually three or four luggage workers, who raise the door. they have a ramp here normally, but because we dont have a ramp well simulate what they do. they throw their bags oen the plane, try to take good care with your bags so they dont break your valuables which occasionally does happen i suppose. and ill go inside to give you a look at what it looks like inside the cargo hold...

Gases, hydrogen chloride and sulfuric acid in very dense amounts put into the air in that aircraft. i hate to speculate too far on this but the fact is there is historical data that talks about this and 114 different reported incidents of lithion batteries loaded on to or removed from aircraft that have actually had these fires happen. its not a new thing, this is something thats going on for a long time. in the united states, you cant put that quantity of lithion batteries in the cargo compartm...

Per square inch of hydraulic pressure that goes into that wheel well. that comes up, he had to be in the right spot, otherwise he would have been crushed like a bug. >> essentially miraculous is the right word to use. 3,000 pounds of landing gear had to skate by him. >> what happened when the gear came down? if the poor young man was unconscious, thats what happened with a 767 -- >> some sort of a ledge or something holding him in there. >> gear doors hold the gear up. >> shoots you out. >> well...

Immediately afterward was a very large wave of water that rose up like a wave at a beach. >> all 110 people on board are killed. >> all right. we will show you a live picture of the crash scene. that area of scorched earth surrounded by water in the green everglades around it, very, very little left in terms of wreckage. >> investigators spend weeks combing through the swamp looking for clues. >> as they found more and more of the wreckage and they were able to look in the forward cargo hold, th...

Oxygen is generated and released into the hold. the reaction also produces heat with temperatures of up to 500 degrees fahrenheit. the combination of heat and pure oxygen creates a voracious fire. inside the hold, the pure oxygen allows the fire to burn through the liner and up into the cabin, melting the floor beams under the passengers feet. >> they discovered that it had already burnt up pretty much in the sky. >> it was a breakdown there. there was a series of communications breakdown. a lot...

Panel, bring in mary schiavo, former inspector general for the department of transportation, david gallo of the woods hull ocean graphic institution and cnn aviation analyst les abend. les a fire on board, how serious is that, as a pilot how big a concern is that for you and do you do? >> its got to be the worst scenario on an airplane. >> really? >> yeah. because you have no control over the situation for the most part except to be able to attempt to extinguish the fire. if it happened in the f...

>> i want to go back to our panel, bring in mary schiavo, former inspector general for the department of transportation, david gallo of the woods hull ocean graphic institution and cnn aviation analyst les abend. les a fire on board, how serious is that, as a pilot how big a concern is that for you and do you do? >> its got to be the worst scenario on an airplane. >> really? >> yeah. because you have no control over the situation for the most part except to be able to attempt to extinguish the f...

That was bowing 737, it was down from seoul, south korea and it crash landed in heavy wind and rain about 25 miles from the airport. another crash occurred in 2011, july 29th, two people died when an asiana cargo plane crashed in the waters of southern coast of south korea after it reported a fire in cargo compartments. we dont know the make of that particular plane. this one is a boeing 777, undetermined number of passengers on board, but, heather, you were mentioning the redwood city fire depa...