Asiana B744 near Jeju on Jul 28th 2011, fire in cargo hold

Last Update: August 3, 2015 / 17:31:09 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jul 28, 2011

Classification
Crash

Airline
Asiana Airlines

Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400

ICAO Type Designator
B744

South Korea's ARAIB have released their final report in Korean concluding the probable cause of the crash was:

Physical evidence does not permit to identify the exact cause of why the fire broke out. The fire started near the palettes ML and PR, quickly grew and could not be suppressed with part of the agent being released into the exhaust air.

Contributing factors were:

- the combination of class 3 flammable emulsions (paint) in palette ML as well as flammable and corrosive liquids and class 9 lithium-ion batteries in palette PR.
- the aircraft was not equipped with class E cargo bay with pro-active fire suppression systems making it difficult to suppress a large fire.

The ARAIB reported ACARS message have been received indicating the activation of cautions, warnings and alerts for (in sequence of occurrence over a period of 7 minutes):

EQUIPMENT SMOKE
EQUIP COOLING
CGO DET 11 MN DK
CGO DET 6, 10 MN DK
CGO DET 7, 16, 5, 4, 3, 8 MN DK
PACK 2, 3
SATCOM SYSTEM
A/P SINGLE SYS
YAW DAMPER LWR
STAB TRIM, STAB TRIM 2
AUTOPILOT DISC
DET APU FIRE
FMC LEFT
DOOR ENTRY L5
FLIGHT RCDR SYS
AUTOTHROT DISC
ELEVATOR FEEL
BTL LOW CARGO
CGO DET AFT 4
BAT DISCH APU
SUPRNMRY OXY ON
APU
ELT ON
YAW DAMPER UPR
RUD RATIO DUAL
FLAPS CONTROL
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jul 28, 2011

Classification
Crash

Airline
Asiana Airlines

Aircraft Type
Boeing 747-400

ICAO Type Designator
B744

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