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Old 03-25-2014, 04:36 AM
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abelenky
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Originally Posted by SyGunson View Post
Has anybody canvased the idea of what happened to Egyptair Flight 667 in 2011 had also happened to MH370 at 35,000ft?

An electrical fire (ie arcing) in the avionics bay occurred at the gate on Flight 667. This burned through an oxygen feed line beside the co-pilot's position.

Such a fire could have melted the fuselage skin like a blow torch and evacuated the pilot's emergency oxygen in seconds. This is like a cascading failure where pilots were pre-occuppied with one failure followed by a different type of failure.

Any thoughts please?
This theory doesn't readily support the plane flying on its own for several more hours.

The problem so far with *any* theory is that they all match some facts, and are totally contradicted by other facts.

I suspect one of two things will eventually happen:
The truth will be totally surprising and unexpected, or some of the "facts" we think we know will turn out to be dead wrong.
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