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we thought everybody could get off. like i said, there wasn t any screams. there wasn t any noise coming from the plane. so you felt that everybody was under control. and 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 focused 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 contained to the flush motor on the lavatory, the sernt of the fire damage. investigators immediately suspected arcing event. the electricity that is
desperately trying to get enough speed to stay airborne, they attempt to pull up the landing gear. it wouldn t come up because the left hand undercarriage had been damaged by the fire. they were not in a position to continue level flight. at that point, they realized they needed on the ground, the closest airport. it wasn t a good choice, but it was the best choice that they had. you had a fire. it s not just contained to the engine. it s now encompassed almost the full bottom of the left wing. it was a plane trying to survive. seconds later, engine number one fails. the concorde s chances of making the airfield rapidly diminish. now you have two engines trying to do the work of four. an airplane wallowing in the air because it hasn t built up sufficient flying speed and now a controllablity issue. and an airplane that s on fire. the plane will became totally unflyable. the crew tried to recover by reducing the power on the two
his rate of speed and altitude, he can easily make miami. and miami has services. we have the fire equipment. there s medical. dade collier is out in the everglades and there s nothing there. walton little is fishing in the everglades and can see that something is going very wrong for flight 592. when i hear the loud jet noise, i look to my left shoulder. i see a large aircraft. unusually low to the ground. we re like, okay, this is probably going to be a crash on the airport now. i realized that the bank ang cell getting steeper and steeper and actually approaches and exceeds 90 degrees, such that it s rolling over. on its back. when the plane banks at that angle, the wings can t provide enough lift, causing the plane to lose altitude. if the wings are level, then
the fire? the investigators checked records to see what was being transported in the hold. they find mail, three tires on their way to another valujet plane and then something suspicious. they found there were oxygen generators in there. and they found evidence that some of the generators had been discharged. that suddenly would explain why the containment liner had not worked. inside the cargo hold, the charred remains of nine activated canisters are recovered. oxygen generators use a chemical process to produce oxygen in the event passengers need it during a decompression. according to the ntsb, they were improperly secured for shipping. it turned out it was just very apparently shoddy workmanship. but what causes the fire? according to the ntsb, a disturbance like a bump on the runway makes the spring-loaded levers on the canisters hit the tiny charge on the caps.