Air Canada Flight 797 1
Air Canada Flight 797 1 : Air Canada Flight 797 was a scheduled trans-border flight that flew on a Dallas/Fort Worth-Toronto-Montreal route. On 2 June 1983, the aircraft developed an in-flight fire behind the washroom that spread between the outer skin and the inner decor panels, filling the plane with toxic smoke. The spreading fire also burned through crucial electrical cables that knocked out most of the instrumentation in the cockpit, forcing the plane to divert to an alternative landing field. Ninety seconds after the plane landed and the doors were opened, the heat of the fire and fresh oxygen from the open exit doors created flashover conditions, and the plane's interior quickly became engulfed in flames, killing 23 passengers who were yet to evacuate the aircraft. As a result of this accident, many regulations were implemented around the world to make airplanes safer, including the installation of smoke detectors, emergency lighting leading to exit doors and increased fire fighting training and equipment for crew members. (1) Details: At 16: 20 CDT (21: 20 UTC) on June 2, 1983, the Air Canada aircraft registered C-FTLU took off from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport; it was to make a stop at Toronto International Airport (now Toronto Pearson International Airport) in Malton, Ontario, ultimately bound for Dorval Airport (now Montr?al-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport) in Dorval, Quebec. Donald Cameron was the captain and Claude Ouimet served as first officer. While flying over Louisville, Kentucky, an in-flight fire began in or around the rearlavatory of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32. The pilots heard a popping sound around 18: 51, during dinner service, and discovered that the lavatory's circuit breakers had tripped. It was not uncommon, however, for an airplane's lavatory circuits to pop occasionally, a problem often preceded by the common aftermath of passengers completing their in-flight meals, so Cameron waited around eight minutes to give the tripped circuits time to cool down before attempting to reactivate them at 18: 59. A strong, noxious odour coming from the rear of the plane was first reported to the cabin crew around 19: 00. Flight attendant Judi Davidson traced the odour to the lavatory. She attempted to look into the lavatory but was forced back by thick grey smoke rapidly filling the small room; she then ordered the third ranking crew member to find Sergio Benetti, the chief cabin crew officer, and ask him to investigate. As Benetti sprayed the interior of the affected lavatory with a CO2 extinguisher, Davidson reported the fire to the captain while flight attendant Laura Kayama began urging the passengers on the sparsely populated flight to come away from the front and rear of the plane and sit closer together in a compact group around the over-wing exits
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