Actually, people did die as a result of someone smoking on a plane. 23 to be exact. See flight 797 in Canada. This is part of every yearly recurrent training I had for 25 years as a flight attendant when we went through the fire safety portion of training.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797
Funny, I thought the BARE WIRES were named by the NTSB as the cause of that crash.
Izzat you Drango?
According to that, the fire was likely caused by a short circuit, not smoking.
Yes, thank you, and that is why the flight had to terminate. Better to stop at the gate than in a field.
I saw nothing about smoking as the cause of the fire.
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