Lithium battery cargo fire....

[Mojocvh]

UPS Dubai 747 Uncontained Cargo Fire Leading to Loss of Control Inflight and Uncontrolled Descent Into Terrain....

http://www.gcaa.gov.ae/en/ePublication/admin/iradm...

Grim and frighting reading...control runs melting due to the cargo fire...crew could not see the instruments due to the smoke...

RIP pilots.

[anonymous-user]

Christ that's not good reading! Looks like there was not really anything the pilots could have done about it either ;-(

It's a comprehensive report though (wonders if the recent Bagram crash will be reported in such detail?)

[khaosai]

Hi,

Tragic loss of life. Very detailed report. Went wrong very quickly and chances of a successful outcome were very slim indeed.

RIP.

[Nickyboy]

Max_Torque said:

Christ that's not good reading! Looks like there was not really anything the pilots could have done about it either ;-(

It's a comprehensive report though (wonders if the recent Bagram crash will be reported in such detail?)

It will be comprehensive but the UPS crash highlighted the risks of lithium batteries which were carried on every plane in the world

That's partly why all the new regulations were brought in regarding lithium batteries.

UPS in Cologne were alerted by the fire detectors moments before the pilots, it seems the fire spread that fast there was no hope.

Edited by Nickyboy on Thursday 25th July 21:56

[essayer]

What I don't get is whether there would have been any difference to the end result, had the lithium batteries been properly declared? They fly with them anyway, don't they?

[Nickyboy]

Whether they were declared or not wouldn't have made a difference but it was the way to package them that people were not aware of at the time of the crash. Now every battery has to be boxed or packaged separate before putting in the main parcel, before people were putting them together in a box where they overheated/shorted out. The risks weren't widely known before the crash