in the search to find out what went wrong, investigators discovered that a common aircraft insulation material is a fire hazard. thousands of planes are refitted with new insulation and flammability testing is re-evaluated. but they still don t know how the fire started, and if other aircraft are at risk. when we started to look for potential ignition sources, the very first thing that comes to mind is aircraft wiring. the investigators scour more than 150 miles of wiring for signs of an electrical malfunction called arcing. arcing events are when electricity jumps from a wire to another piece of metal, could be another wire or part of the airplane or something else. when it does that, it can create tremendous amount of heat. finding an arcing event is difficult, and determining if one preceded another is nearly impossible. but six months into writing the final report, the impossible
smoke in the cockpit. in a search to find out has went wrong, investigators discover that a common aircraft insulation material is a fire hazard. thousands of planes are fitted with new insulation. and flammability testing is re-evaluated. but they still don t know how the fire started, and if other aircraft are at risk. when we started to look for potential ignition sources the very first thing that comes to mind is aircraft wiring. the investigators scour more than 150 miles of wiring for signs of an electrical malfunction called arcing. arcing events are when electricity jumps from a wire to another piece of metal. it can be another wire or a part of the airplane or something else. when it does that, it can create tremendous amount of heat. finding an arcing event is
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common aircraft insulation material is a fire hazard. thousands of planes are refitted with new insulation, and flammability testing is re-evaluated. but they still don t know how the fire started. and if other aircraft are at risk. when we started to look for potential ignition sources the very first thing that comes to mind is aircraft wiring. the investigators scour more than 150 miles of wiring for signs of an electrical malfunction called arcing. arcing events are when electricity jumps from a wire to another piece of metal. it can be another wire or a part of the airplane or something else. when it does that it can create tremendous amount of heat. finding an arcing event is difficult and determining if one preceded another is nearly impossible. but six months into writing the final report, the impossible happens. we managed to come up with a
went wrong, investigators discover that a common aircraft insulation material is a fire hazard. thousands of planes are fitted with new insulation. but they still don t know how the fire started. and if other aircraft are at risk. when we started to look for potential ignition sources, the very first thing that comes to mind is aircraft wiring. the investigators scour more than 150 miles of wiring for signs of an electrical malfunction called arcing. arcing events are when electricity jumps from a wire to another piece of metal. it can be another wire or part of the airplane or something else. when it does that it can create tremendous amount of heat. finding an arcing event is difficult, and determining if one preceded another is nearly impossible. but six months into writing the final report, the impossible happens.