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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2460947" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p>what I'd like to know is exactly how much Li-ion (LiCo) material was on board?</p><p>it's certainly within possible scenarios for LiCo material on board to have been root cause for Flight 370's final demise.</p><p></p><p>shipping manifests should give official amounts on board .. no telling what was not declared (Li-ion batteries) due to hazardous ratings involved.</p><p></p><p>it's entirely plausible for a shipment of LiCo to go into thermal runaway (explosion) with little as one battery pack starting a chain reaction. resulting fire would be hot enough to melt through aluminum skin while putting out some pretty vile fumes. for detailed pictures of what can happen, look to Boeing 787 LiCo fires. if entire load of LiCo cascaded into thermal runaway .. plane would have gone down when transponder stopped not some 6+ hours later. it's also possible not all LiCo cells on board cascaded into thermal runaway.</p><p></p><p></p><p>detailed list of LiCo fires on airplanes ...</p><p><a href="http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...dent_chart.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...dent_chart.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2460947, member: 7629"] what I'd like to know is exactly how much Li-ion (LiCo) material was on board? it's certainly within possible scenarios for LiCo material on board to have been root cause for Flight 370's final demise. shipping manifests should give official amounts on board .. no telling what was not declared (Li-ion batteries) due to hazardous ratings involved. it's entirely plausible for a shipment of LiCo to go into thermal runaway (explosion) with little as one battery pack starting a chain reaction. resulting fire would be hot enough to melt through aluminum skin while putting out some pretty vile fumes. for detailed pictures of what can happen, look to Boeing 787 LiCo fires. if entire load of LiCo cascaded into thermal runaway .. plane would have gone down when transponder stopped not some 6+ hours later. it's also possible not all LiCo cells on board cascaded into thermal runaway. detailed list of LiCo fires on airplanes ... [url]http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...dent_chart.pdf[/url] [/QUOTE]
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