in the wake of the swissair 111 crash, the airline industry is forced to re-evaluate their procedures for in-flight fires. flammability testing becomes more rigorous. insulation blankets are manufactured from more flame resistant materials. and the certification and maintenance of wiring becomes more stringent. swissair 111 was a watershed event in how pilots deal with in-flight smoke and fire conditions. after that, pilots recognized how quickly things could go wrong. what makes fire such a lethal threat to aircraft is its ability to start and grow undetected, in some cases the interiors of the plane are at risk. but a fire that starts outside can be just as catastrophic. charles degaulle airport, paris. the concorde, the world s only supersonic passenger jet, speeds down the runway at 175 miles per
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in the search to find out what went wrong, investigators discovered that a common aircraft insulation material is a fire hazard. thousands of planes are refitted with new insulation and flammability testing is re-evaluated. but they still don t know how the fire started, and if other aircraft are at risk. when we started to look for potential ignition sources, the very first thing that comes to mind is aircraft wiring. the investigators scour more than 150 miles of wiring for signs of an electrical malfunction called arcing. arcing events are when electricity jumps from a wire to another piece of metal, could be another wire or part of the airplane or something else. when it does that, it can create tremendous amount of heat. finding an arcing event is difficult, and determining if one preceded another is nearly impossible. but six months into writing the final report, the impossible
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smoke in the cockpit. in a search to find out has went wrong, investigators discover that a common aircraft insulation material is a fire hazard. thousands of planes are fitted with new insulation. and flammability testing is re-evaluated. but they still don t know how the fire started, and if other aircraft are at risk. when we started to look for potential ignition sources the very first thing that comes to mind is aircraft wiring. the investigators scour more than 150 miles of wiring for signs of an electrical malfunction called arcing. arcing events are when electricity jumps from a wire to another piece of metal. it can be another wire or a part of the airplane or something else. when it does that, it can create tremendous amount of heat. finding an arcing event is
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