event, like you referenced egyptair, two years before that, silk air. that was a pilot suicide too. agreed by the western experts. not accepted by the country. by indonesian. and the egyptians never accepted it in their case. and that s why i people have said to me, the malaysians might be reluctant to accept that notion. if, in fact, we we don t know if it is. we don t want to convict the pilot without any real hard evidence. but here s a hypothetical question, and you re a 777 pilot, mark. if a pilot were to do such a horrible thing, this 53-year-old pilot, could he do the whole thing by himself, from within that cockpit? well, on the assumption that this is a hypothetical response, yes. he could. you can you can have one of the pilots get out of the cockpit. typically could do that to go to the lavatory. certainly you could do that. you can also keep somebody out of the cockpit. there are ways of doing that. and in that case, if you had a
these wires would release an enormous amount of energy and could ignite a fire. investigators do, in fact, find evidence of arcing on the left and right lavatory feeder wires, that come out through holes in the floorboards. the arc starts a fire that ignites the lavatory walls, the fire then spreads consuming vital electric systems, making it almost impossible for captain cameron to control the aircraft. became suddenly very hard to fly. it was nose heavy because the stabilizer trim had failed. his arms would have been very, very, very tired by the time he got on the ground. he had expended a lot of physical energy just to keep control of the airplane. he did a really good job. he s a seriously good aviator. air canada says the plane met all safety standards. the question now is whether those standards should be made tougher. with extensive evidence from the aircraft and detailed accounts from the flight crew and pxs, the aviation entry
investigators immediately suspect an arcing event. the electricity that is flowing through a wire as, over time, insulation can chaff, crack. and these cracks allow the electricity to not flow down the wire path as it s supposed to, but to jump to a part of the frame of the airplane or to another wire that might be exposed. the lavatory motor is small but carries a lot of power. weight on an airplane is something you try to keep to an absolute minimum. one of the ways that we do that in aircraft is to utilize very small, but very powerful electric motors so that a very small motor can get three boosts of electricity, as it winds around. the motor inside the lavatory is supplied with three phase power, much stronger than a household current. electricity jumping from one of
enormity of the deaths of that, that s still with me. i feel badly about that still, that we couldn t get them all off. but we couldn t. we thought everybody was off. we thought everybody could get off. like we said, there wasn t any screams or noise coming from the plane. so, you felt that everybody was under control and getting off? was getting off. it was a real mixed bag of emotions. of course, we were thrilled to have survived such an incredible ordeal and to realize that some people had not survived was still upsetting. immediately after the accident, investigators focus on finding the source of the fire. the investigators knew early on that they had had a fire of likely electrical origin because of the amount of damage done in the lavatory area. the circuit breakers that popped early in the flight were connected to the lavatory.
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