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There's fire extinguishing bottles in the engine, the cell areas, so if this fire was in the cell, it would try to put that out. what that indicates to me is there may have been some kind of a breach in the fuel system to continue to feed that fire. so it's obviously preliminary. >> les? >> anderson, let me clarify a little bit what dave said. you have to -- we have to go through a checklist. we have to physically what we call shoot a bottle. there are bottles that we shoot or halon bottles that we activate in the cockpit that shoots fire retardant into that particular engine. in this particul...

Fire but hydrochloric acid and the sulphuric acid in vapor form still continue to exude. if those batteries were stored in the front i'd be looking for evidence of that. those two gasses together could be deadly. >> in supplement to what david is saying, if it got into the e and e compartment, lower compartment that has all the avionics and so forth, that doesn't have halon to it. it has a system that automatically -- if it senses smoke it will reverse the air flow. now if the pilots put on their oxygen mask, the problem is if they don't recognize they have a toxic situation they might not go ...

If the halon extinguishes the fire but hydrochloric acid and the sulphuric acid in vapor form still continue to exude. if those batteries were stored in the front i'd be looking for evidence of that. those two gasses together could be deadly. >> in supplement to what david is saying, if it got into the e and e compartment, lower compartment that has all the avionics and so forth, that doesn't have halon to it. it has a system that automatically -- if it senses smoke it will reverse the air flow. now if the pilots put on their oxygen mask, the problem is if they don't recognize they have a toxi...

Fire department 11/the same thing les just said, they thought they had it out, it came back and reignited. and the suppression systems in the wide body planes, there's questions whether they could put that out. hopefully we'll learn more lessons through the dream liner fires. >> there's the issue of lithium batteries carried by passengers. and used operationally like in the dream liner? >> right. >> mostly i would be focused on the cargo hold as les mentioned, it doesn't always work. >> halon? >> that would be the fire extinguisher unit in the cargo area. once it's smothered and the system bel...