boeing 777 yesterday. kudos for the cabin crew getting all passengers out. questions as well about what led to all of this as flight 2276 began its takeoff. according to the faa a fire in the left hand engine prompted the crew to abort the takeoff and take steps to snuff out the flames. tonight, however, a source close to the investigation tells us the plane s fire suppression system didn t work. they want to know did it simply not function? or did the fuel line rupture make the fire too big to contain. joining me cnn safety analyst les avat, and analyst and faa accident investigator, excuse me, david sousey. wes, the system that helps put out the flames. how does it work exactly? it is a halon system, activated in the cockpit, anderson. when we get a fire warning, we get an electronic fire bell. we get, one of our instrumentation up front in the cockpit, tells us that we have a
bill and trust me i do respect the man having his experience. i have a little concern in the fact that sometimes our knowledge and experience in accident investigation can get ahead of us, we make some assumptions based on the past, and try to fit it into the patterns, there are some differences on this aircraft. namely, the halon system, the fire extinguishing system that s gone on on this aircraft. where it goes and how everything goes through that aircraft, while i don t discount that theory, there s a possibility in my mind that this fire could have occurred and been contained in some way, with the existing systems on that particular aircraft, and continued to fly. the one question i keep asking myself about this, if it had been a catastrophic failure like a fire or something, surely given how modern and sophisticated these planes are,