[Kharon]

Clive Irving – Daily Beast - with a down to earth proposition from Boeing and the FAA.  Even if this did not cause the MH 370 event, it’s got to worth more than a passing thought.

The Daily Beast asked Boeing specific questions about these three critical points—about the effectiveness of the 777’s fire suppression system in the event of a battery-initiated fire, about whether consignments of batteries should ever be shipped on trans-oceanic flights and whether there was empirical evidence that placing such consignments in particular locations in the cargo bays represented a greater danger than placing them in other locations.

A Boeing spokesman, Doug Alder, responded: “We aren’t going to provide specifics.”

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