Delta 757 diverts Pasco for Cargo Overheat

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z987k said:
Could have taken the extra minute to continue to SEA at that point, lol.
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I know you're only kidding, and I'm not trying to jump down your throat, but don't EVER, EVER, EVER do that!

I'll post later today a whole list of accidents caused by inflight fires, and the number of minutes it took for the fire to become unsurvivable. Sadly, in a significant number of these cases, the lives of those aboard could have been saved if the flight crew had landed immediately, rather than delay 5 or 10 minutes to run a checklist.
 
Hammertime said:
I know you're only kidding, and I'm not trying to jump down your throat, but don't EVER, EVER, EVER do that!

I'll post later today a whole list of accidents caused by inflight fires, and the number of minutes it took for the fire to become unsurvivable. Sadly, in a significant number of these cases, the lives of those aboard could have been saved if the flight crew had landed immediately, rather than delay 5 or 10 minutes to run a checklist.
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This. Especially with a mountain range in between.

No way of knowing yet when they got the indication but according to Flightaware from top of descent to landing was 14 minutes. Not too bad for a divert.
 
Hammertime said:
I know you're only kidding, and I'm not trying to jump down your throat, but don't EVER, EVER, EVER do that!

I'll post later today a whole list of accidents caused by inflight fires, and the number of minutes it took for the fire to become unsurvivable. Sadly, in a significant number of these cases, the lives of those aboard could have been saved if the flight crew had landed immediately, rather than delay 5 or 10 minutes to run a checklist.
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Yep. After reading the UPS 6 report, I pretty much decided that if I'm more than 15-20 minutes from an airport with a fire burning on the airplane, I'm ditching somewhere.
 
A certain Canadian built airplane cries wolf quite a bit when it comes to lav fires and every time it's an immediate landing at nearest suitable airport. At least every time I've had it happen.

Find a runway and run the before landing checklist at the appropriate time regardless of if the QRH or climb checks etc are done. Git 'er on the ground!
 
bronco21016 said:
A certain Canadian built airplane cries wolf quite a bit when it comes to lav fires and every time it's an immediate landing at nearest suitable airport. At least every time I've had it happen.

Find a runway and run the before landing checklist at the appropriate time regardless of if the QRH or climb checks etc are done. Git 'er on the ground!
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Or as discussed before, put her down on a useable piece of landing area if no airport is available and its getting bad enough. An off-airport landing isn't a guaranteed crash, while remaining airborne with a cabin or fuselage fire thats getting worse, will eventually. Not engine fire, but the fuselage or cargo on fire. TACA 110 proved it can be done safely.
 
MikeD said:
Or as discussed before, put her down on a useable piece of landing area if no airport is available and its getting bad enough. An off-airport landing isn't a guaranteed crash, while remaining airborne with a cabin or fuselage fire thats getting worse, will eventually. Not engine fire, but the fuselage or cargo on fire. TACA 110 proved it can be done safely.
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"Land at the nearest suitable airport" is both an uncompromising instruction and appears with considerable regularity in the airplane's QRH with respect to most fires.
 
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