Cockpit Fire News Today

The flight made an emergency midair U-turn shortly after taking off when the flight crew saw fire in the cockpit and noticed a “burnt electrical smell."

According to a 134-page report by French aviation experts, it has come into light that the 2016 crash of EgyptAir MS804 with 66 people on board was triggered by a fire in the cockpit which was caused by the pilot's cigarette.

>> reporter: its an eerie feeling sitting in a cockpit virtually similar to the mh 370 missing flight. veteran pilot rob johnson activates the boeing 777 autopilot 20 seconds after takeoff. the autopilot follows waypoints along the flight path. it is land the plane if necessary. less than a hour into its flight mh 370 veered off the planned route. our simulator makes the same turn. nobody knows why one or both pilots decided to change course. or why the plane disappeared from civilian radar. the...

Captain shah for any wrongdoing. as an average student in school he would not have been able to master mind such a plot. nobody knows why the plane lost contact. some theorize there could have been a massive electrical problem, a cockpit fire or a cabin fire turning it into a ghost plane. >> why isnt hasnt shown up yet, that is the true mystery of it. if it had crashed in the way we think it did, to hit the water and break up into pieces there would be pieces somewhere. >> aviation analyst jeff ...

It have to have been done after the sign-off, but we also have to say it is selective fire, it is only shutting off the acars, the transponder, but not the auto pilot. >> mike, you agree with that? >> well, sean, i think it is important to know the limitations of what is going on in the cockpit of a jet, so im going to have to punt this one over. >> i think absolutely yes, you have the transponder in the acars units going into it. you have all sorts of feeds, what are the engines doing, the cabi...

It have to have been done after the sign-off, but we also have to say it is selective fire, it is only shutting off the acars, the transponder, but not the auto pilot. >> mike, you agree with that? >> well, sean, i think it is important to know the limitations of what is going on in the cockpit of a jet, so im going to have to punt this one over. >> i think absolutely yes, you have the transponder in the acars units going into it. you have all sorts of feeds, what are the engines doing, the cabi...

It have to have been done after the sign-off, but we also have to say it is selective fire, it is only shutting off the acars, the transponder, but not the auto pilot. >> mike, you agree with that? >> well, sean, i think it is important to know the limitations of what is going on in the cockpit of a jet, so im going to have to punt this one over. >> i think absolutely yes, you have the transponder in the acars units going into it. you have all sorts of feeds, what are the engines doing, the cabi...

Counterpoint, in almost every stage of this investigation. >> well, the hand flown theory, and, again, there is a theory that was very popular on the internet today by a pilot by the name of goodfellow who basically put forward the theory there was a cockpit fire and that hard left bank was an attempt to kind of take the plane back toward a runway, get it down in response to cabin depressurization. again, at the point of this investigation seems to be what we do know is that the plane seemed to ...

Counterpoint, in almost every stage of this investigation. >> well, the hand flown theory, and, again, there is a theory that was very popular on the internet today by a pilot by the name of goodfellow who basically put forward the theory there was a cockpit fire and that hard left bank was an attempt to kind of take the plane back toward a runway, get it down in response to cabin depressurization. again, at the point of this investigation seems to be what we do know is that the plane seemed to ...

Likely just a minor cockpit fire where the smoke overwhelmed the crew but not before the captain thought im going to turn the airplane back towards land, towards the last known point. he be that intense they wouldnt have the time to put on simple oxygen masks to at least signal a distress call? >> it could be, but these things if they propagate slowly your initial inclination is you smell burning plastic. if you dont immediately save