you know, you just, you just don t want to go there. the thought of it is difficult for her. so i sympathize with that part of it. but, even so, if she is going to connect with people emotionally which she is not doing yet in this campaign. she has the capability of doing that shec that. she has to take off the cloaks, masks, be herself, be hillary. let us see who she is. things will get much better if she is willing to do that. thank you. thank you. quick programming note. tomorrow night here on cnn two big interviews. donald trump a guest on new day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. at 4:00 p.m., jeb bush and jake tapper of the lead. did a key safety item fail in the fire that nearly consumed the airliner in las vegas. new details. and perspective from aviation professionals including someone who flies a plane just like this one. when we continue.
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
fire. it lights up the fire handle. lights up fuel control switch. then we activate that switch on our own. we actually turn this fire handle. there are two separate bottles on the triple 7. we turn it to, either bottle it does not matter. it will electronically activate a squib which will discharge halon too the engine. this is all part of the check. very textbook procedure type stuff that we practice on every recurrent journey. david, when you look how big the fire is, in your mind is it possible this could have been a fuel loon ruine rupture or some else? looking at the damage on the airplane now, it is interesting. the leading wing, on the engine, severely damaged. wasn t just an engine failure. where all right fuel lines go into the engine area. this would explain possibly the
fire system les was describing deployed wasn t able to exting wish the fire. it appears that the fire was externa external. there is a point in takeoff. the plane cannot stop. it has to go up in the air. correct. we focus on three speed. let me focus on the main one, v-1, the decision speed. at that speed if we make the decision to stop the airplane, stop the jet, stop the threat. at that point if we have made the decision prior to reaching the speed there should be enough runway at the weight we re at, at the temperature we are at, altitude we are at to stop the airplane. in this particular case in las vegas, very hot that evening. 100 degrees. looked at 7:00 in the evening. approximately 3,000, 4,000 feet if i recall on the elevation, lot of performance there. the airplane should have came to a stop. and as we saw it did very well.
david. if this happened when the plane was actually in the air, what would have happened then? how bad could this have been? we would be looking at a very different sa thecenario. everyone survived. 20 injuries. all released within a day. if this happened in the air. a catastrophic fame year of possibly the wing. if you lack at the damage it could have gotten into the leading edge of the wing into the wing spar. if that fire continued it would certainly penpenetrated. melted the windows on that side. if that continued fueled by the fanning of the flames and oxygen, it could have been ape very serious catastrophic fame year of the whole airplane. scary stuff. you see the pass jen errs waeng across the runway with carry-on language. they re supposed to leave that on the plane. aren t they. walking with it must slow down the evacuation process, no? of course it does. you know this is humannay