Originally Posted by
Mazster
Round two:
Is it conceivable on a 777 to have an electrical fire that produces enough smoke to take out the crew, and terminates power to the transponders, ACARS and presumably the communications transceivers without interrupting power to the A/P and other systems required to keep the A/C in the air? (FYI, not a reporter)
Nope. It's a non-zero probability, but is virtually zero. All the fire speculation is driving me nuts... we try to get the plane on the ground within 15 minutes with a fire, and it would be even less likely for it to happen exactly at an FIR crossing. This thing kept on going for another 6 hours. There is virtually no logical way that happened with a fire.