What's the number for survival of a real cargo fire? 12 mins on deck or something? I can't imagine how bad that would get, even in that time, for the back
Like anything, it depends. Depends what’s burning, the intensity of the fire, the effectiveness of any suppression undertaken, etc.
You want a creepy accident? Nationair flight 2120, July 11 1991, a Canadian DC-8-61 that was flying on contract out of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A couple of overheated tires on takeoff disintegrated and caught fire as the jet lifted off. Crew didn’t know this and retracted the burning tires with gear up. The fire continued in the wheel well, burning out hydraulic lines and burning through the aileron cables, while also burning under the cabin floor of the pax cabin. As the crew tried to return to land with the indications of the failing and failed systems, they lowered the landing gear, and the rush of air into the gear well intensified the fire, burning through the floor of the cabin and causing passengers to fall through the main landing gear well while still in their seats, to their deaths. The crew lost control due to the burned through flight control cables and crashed, with a total o 261 fatal.