This Plane’s Anti-Fire Protection Failed to Prevent a Fire 🔥 Air Disasters | Smithsonian Channel 

@Levi i agree, First officer Bell was able to hear captain Lampe dropping unconscious on the floor and yet he managed to stay calm and fly the plane as professionaly as possibe, hes a real hero.

Lol

The video failed to explain this, but the fire was due to a shipment of lithium batteries. So the fire protection measures were actually quite good for holding on as long as they did. Most in-flight fires will be extinguished by depressurizing the cargo hold. UPS 6 tried this, but lithium fires create their own oxygen while burning, so it didn't work. The fact that the plane stayed in the air for longer than 1 minute without any lithium fire specific measures is a testament to how impressive the firewall was. Compare that to how long Swissair 111 lasted with just a basic electrical fire.

@@flyingtentacle7631 oh nice

⁠​⁠@@flyingtentacle7631To be fair, Swissair 111, had no chance to making it to Halifax. To my knowledge the pilots turned off the recirculating fans as per the fire checklist. Which accelerated the speed of the fire if I’m correct. However, investigators concluded. When the pilots declared Pan Pan Pan at 10:14 pm local time. The plane was roughly about 70-80 miles away from Halifax heading North-East. Investigators conclude from this position they would take 13 minutes to reach Halifax. Which would be 10:27 pm. By 10:24 when the pilots declared mayday for the fire. It was too late. The autopilot disconnected, instruments were failing and the loss of communication with Moncton Air Traffic Control based in New Brunswick. Captain Urn Zimmerman and First Officer Stefan Lowe did their utmost getting the plane to the airport. But a full plane with a heavy fuel load, too high on approach to land at Halifax and a fire rapidly consuming the aircraft. They were fighting an uphill battle. It was also confirmed Captain Zimmerman wasn’t in his seat likely fighting the fire until he was overcome by Fumes. Most likely he ingested a lethal amount of either Carbon Dioxide or Monoxide and was likely unconscious before impact. First Officer Stefan Lowe was and was still in control of the aircraft until the very end. At night, no control, can’t see with smoke in the cockpit and the worst part. No visual reference of what way was up. But truly, both accidents were tragic and in some ways could’ve been prevented. But was completely nothing the pilots could’ve done to save their passengers, plane and themselves.

@@flyingtentacle7631 You can still do it with a better designed system. The lithium supply isn't infinite. Make the fireshield in the cargo hold strong enough to contain the fire until the supply of fuel and oxidiser runs out

Too bad

@@kirilmihaylov1934 Well, you can’t blame them for that you know it’s More of Safety not Money, most people see it the other way but Lives are worth more than the product

Nicely said

Please help me with the full episode link to watch

You know travelling by plane is the safest means of transport

@Mr. CatDozer14 He was lucky to at least avoid more deaths on the ground

Avoid the suburb of Duabi :)

Well, I would partly blame the rules regarding the limit on the lithium Batteries, it’s not the Pilots fault, not UPS fault it was more of the fault on the maximum amount of lithium batteries, had there been a lower limit fire would have been less intense, more time to land, all the opposite things that occurred (Except the Flight Controls, well sort of) but this crash did help to fit all the smoke detectors, fire extinguishers and the allowable amount of lithium batteries onboard

Is it me or is the A380 just bigger ONLY in passenger service

Huh?

NOT FUNNY

sadly u wasn't first

@@scottgamedev8542 How?

@@scottgamedev8542 I at least commented first.

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