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Originally Posted by hwy19man
I have been surfing the internet about fire at high altitudes and how combustion is much more difficult. If a plane is depressurized at 12,000 metres (40,000 feet), the air up there has far less oxygen. How strong can the fire be?
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Yeah but you're inside a pressurized vessel whose oxygen conditions are the same as those atop an 8,000 ft mountain... and either way, an electric fire couldn't care less. Swissair's fire started at 33,000 feet, but the altitude is irrelevant cause it was flammable insulation-type material that was burning. They found pieces of the ceiling that were melted. The cockpit was engulfed in flames.