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Incident: Aeromexico B787 over Atlantic on Jun 29th 2015, cargo smoke indication
An Aeromexico Boeing 787-800, registration N961AM performing flight AM-3 (dep Jun 28th) from Mexico City (Mexico) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) with 193 people on board, was enroute at FL370 over the Atlantic Ocean about 230nm southwest of Shannon (Ireland) when the crew reported an right aft cargo smoke indication and decided to divert to Shannon. (avherald.com) Ещё...
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Seems to me this all took about 40-45 minutes. Had this for a fact been a fire, the would have started experiencing problems in 10-15 minutes. Being Southwest of Shannon, how come they overflew just about everything in the UK to divert to Shannon? Not knowing anything but the indication, I think I'd been looking for earlier ground.
Think that this has happened too often over the years only to end in a crash short of any airport. One happened because they overflew a military airport that they could have landed at with a fire in the rear lav.
230 nm southwest of Shannon puts them right over the Atlantic preacher.
I was having a senior moment this morning. I was a thinkin' SE. It still looks like something else would have been quicker though as Shannon sits so far North, but I haven't looked at their fight track real close.
Shannon was really their best option:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AMX3/history/20150629/0435Z/MMMX/LFPG
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AMX3/history/20150629/0435Z/MMMX/LFPG
I was thinking Shannon set a lot further North. That's what I get for thinking I guess. LOL. You are correct. It was their best option. Had it been an actual fire though, they might have been in trouble.
Am I missing something here though? Fire indication and they did not activate any fire suppression. I'm flying on memory but seems to me that was about #1 response on CL.
Good question. Are there multiple sensor inputs in the cargo bay? If there are and only one went off, it might give them pause. Don't know.
Well, I'm flying on memory but I think there is a different sensor and indication for smoke and fire, but the old saying, where there is smoke, there is fire, so idk.
