Fire Breaks Out During Takeoff Resulting in Major Changes for Airline Safety Procedures
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The Importance of Light Winds in Aircraft Operations
The accident has highlighted a general ignorance of the importance of light winds within the aviation community at large. Operational procedures in widespread use made little or no allowance of practical value for such winds and provided minimal guidance to aircrew. The primary reason for the majority of the fatalities was rapid incapacitation due to the inhalation of toxic smoke atmosphere. 48 had absorbed levels of carbon monoxide and or hydrogen cyanide in excess of that required to induce incapacitation. If again, if they just turn the other direction, it would have gone so differently.
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