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Mechanical explanation for this. the aircraft on take off might have had damage to the nose tire or the nose wheel assembly such that a fire was started just as it took off and as the gear was retracted into the wheel well. if that were the case, that area would begin to overheat and not far away and up above is the avianics hole. so the smoke from the tire could have gone into that area and heated it up and caused this cascading failure of transponders, radios, and then came up into the aircraft itself including the cockpit. they wouldn't have discovered that necessarily until they were into ...
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