Originally Posted by
ForeverFO
How about windows? If possible, go low, depressurize the airplane, and open a window. Would it work? Would you freeze rather than burn?
The 744 does not have any windows that you can open, just a small smoke vent in the cockpit. If you were really determined, you might be able to depressurize and pull the escape hatch open in flight, but it would probably just turn the flight deck into a chimney and pull the fire into the cockpit faster.
Originally Posted by
gdube94
Only a few ways to put out a fire. Remove the heat. Remove the oxygen. Or remove the fuel (whatever is burning)
Staying at altitude and depressurizing may work, unless the materials burning are producing their own oxygen, not uncommon with many dangerous goods.
IIRC Lithium batteries produce their own Oxygen.