an md-11 leaves new york for geneva for swiss air with 229 pepole on board after a bit of radio silence they contact atc in canada it was also one of the first planes to have personal tvs. just after 1010pm the first sign of smoke is an odd smell behind the fo which doesn’t lead to much but a fa also notices the smell when she visits the cockpit but until it comes back it doesn’t change anything but they than declare pan pan pan and request decent and diversion to boston but change to halifax when they find out they are a lot closer to halifax. the crew follow checklists and decend quite slowly which isn’t going to help them at all there is no smoke in the cabin at any point. the crew are told runway 06 is expecteed. than they realise they are way too high too fast and too heavy to land in 30 miles which as close they get to the runway due to the fuel ammonut is too much and they make the fateful decision to dump over the water which takes them away from the airport even though the fos whants to avoid dumping fuel they decide to. the cabin power is than turned off which seals the fate of the plane as it deactivates the fans that were keeping the fire out of the cockpit and than the autopilot fails followed by all instruments and the cvr and fdr all within 60 seconds and than communication is lost at 1025pm they somehow stay in the air for 6 minutes but it is assumed the captain is dead as he wasn’t in his seat and was fighting the fire the fo was alive as he shut down engine no 2 1 minute before impact there emergency decleartion was missed due to atc distractions they hit the ocean with no survivors. the plane is in 3 million pieces and only 1 body intact. the cause of the fire was a arched wire behind the cockpit in the attic of the plane. they also say the crew could never have made it to safety which is disputed as if they decended at a reasonable rate dumped fuel earlier and kept cabin power on they might have made it the enteratiment system was related to the wires that caused the fire.
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