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To: OA5599

There is also this one:

The type’s second hull-loss occurred on July 29, 2011, when EgyptAir Flight 667 a 777-200ER registered as SU-GBP suffered a cockpit fire while parked at the gate at Cairo International Airport. The plane was successfully evacuated with no injuries, and airport fire teams extinguished the fire. The aircraft sustained structural, heat and smoke damage. This aircraft was written off. Investigators focused on a possible electrical fault with a supply hose in the cockpit crew oxygen system.

They were lucky it happened at the gate instead of in flight.


19 posted on 08/03/2016 8:36:29 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Moonman62

Wasn’t aware of that one. Looking at the cockpit photos, yes indeed they were lucky it was at the gate and not in the air.

Due to that incident, now all oxygen supply hoses must now be non-electrically conductive as they suspected a short circuit through an oxygen hose from missing wire holders.


29 posted on 08/03/2016 12:07:33 PM PDT by OA5599
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