nature. flight attendants this is their job not to serve us coffee and, you know, scotch. this is their job to get us off the airplane. they turn into totally different people when this has to happen. but that being said, you know, folks are just going to grab their stuff. but i do want to add anderson to something that dave said with the poe ttential for different scenario when airborne. what concerns me, this looks to me like it might have been an uncontained engine fire. meaning stuff came out of it. shrapnel is what i understand from my magazine that i write for, flying magazine indicated shrapnel came out of it. this is a design that should, this design should not occur. all engines are designed to contain the material within that engine. so, that concerns me a little bit. les, good to have you on. david, as well. coming up how the syrian refugee crisis is making a mark on a
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