door, they could see smoke but not point of origin. there wasn t open flame. that was behind the walls, it was an inaccessible area. a fire behind the walls is a worst-case scenario, it s almost impossible to put out or contain. a disaster is in progress. smoke was scary, then all of a sudden i lost all my electric power. that s when the crew realized that they had a life-threatening event on their hands. they needed on the ground as soon as they could possibly get there. approach air canada 797, we re on a mayday, we re going down. moments later, dense smoke begins to come through the cabin walls. roger, do you have time to give me the nature of the emergency? we have a fire in the wash, in the back washroom, and we re filling up with smoke right now. filled the cabin very quickly. i would say 10 to 15 minutes. it was horrible. it was so thick that you couldn t see your hand in front of you. you could feel your lungs and
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.
point of origin. there wasn t open flame. that was behind the walls in an inaccessible areas. a fire hyped behind the wall is an almost impossible to put out or contain. the smoke was clearing and then i suddenly lost all of my electrical power. that s when the crew realized they had a life threatening event on their hands. they needed a crew on the ground. may day. we re going down. moments later dense smoke begins to come through the cabin walls. you have time to give me the nature of the emergency? we have a fire in the wash in the back washroom. we re filling up with smoke right now. filled the cabin very quickly. i would say 10 to 15 minutes it was horrible. . it was so thick you couldn t see your hand in front of you. you could feel your lungs and throat burning from the sensation of breathing in.
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
not point of origin. there wasn t open flame. that was behind the walls. it was in an inaccessible area. a fire behind the walls is the worst case scenario. it s almost impossible to put out or contain. a disaster is in progress. the smoke was clearing and then all of a sudden, i lost all my electrical power. that s when the crew realized they had a life-threatening event on their hands. they needed on the ground as soon as they could possibly get there. approach air canada 797. we re on a mayday. we re going down. moments later, dense smoke begins to come through the cabin walls. roger. you have time to give me the nature of the emergency? we have a fire in the wash in the back washroom. we re filling up with smoke. it filled the cabin very quickly. i would say 10 to 15 minutes? it was horrible. it was so thick that you couldn t see your hand in front of you. you could feel your lungs and your throat burning from the