Check this out...
http://www.digistar.cl/SR111/srmv3o.html
It was worse than you think...one of my Mates wife was on 111.
Beave
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Remember the Swiss Air MD-11 that caught on fire after take off from JFK? Had the pilots landed immediately when they realized they had problems (They could have, but the Captain decided to circle to burn off fuel) they would have been fine, but instead all were killed when the fire got out of control. Since then...when on fire...land immediately...period.
Beave
Actually from all the reports that I have read, the rate at which the fire grew on board SR 111 would have meant that by the time a pan pan was declared they would not have been able to land had they started to do so immediately. Such a tragic crash...[sm=sleeping.gif]