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Article on Ageing Wiring from the Canberra Times

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Mon January 14 2008, 07:18 AM
Mark Fetherolf
Article on Ageing Wiring from the Canberra Times
... Concerns escalated when Swissair Flight 111, an MD-11, crashed in September 1998 after a cockpit fire, apparently triggered by defective insulation on ageing wires. It also emerged that standards for flammability, particularly of thermal insulation blankets, did not account for temperatures generated by an electrical short-circuit and wiring of a recently installed passenger entertainment system was faulty.

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