Slowtack
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Echoes of Boeing Max?
In the case of the 737 Max, that's absolute and defamatory rubbishFire?
Er - Titanic...she hit an iceberg...
Both Max and Titanic were caused by incompetent crew failing to carry out normal procedures, but how does fire come into either?
Or is this a typo?
Quite right. Bunker fires were commonplace in the era of coal fired steamships. They were usually dealt with by removing as much coal as possible from the bunker in question, and damping down adjacent compartments. The idea that is often touted that Titanic was trying to set some sort or record is ludicrous because the ship was not designed for speed. Cunard had much faster ships. Titanic and her sisters were designed to cover the North Atlantic route in six days, allowing two ships to run a regular weekly service each way, starting at the same time on the same day each week.Seen the bunker fire story before and I think it is a red herring. The Titanic sank because she hit an iceberg while going at full speed. The damage caused flooding that exceeded the design parameters and glug glug. Why she was still going at full speed in an ice field at night is not really relevant. Hubris was quite normal then, as it still is.
The fire was in the stokehold between boiler rooms 5 and 6, located directly below the forward funnel. A fire there would not affect the results of the impact, which was spread across all five forward compartments, including the two forward cargo holds. Also the stokehold was directly below the first class swimming pool: if the fire had reached the temperatures they claim, the water in the pool would have been literally boiling, but there is no report of any such incident.I watched the documentary on the fire a couple of years back. Found the explanation wholly plausible with quite a large amount of supporting evidence that the fire was raging before she left.
We'll never know for sure, but I was left pretty convinced that it was a major factor in the disaster and led to her sinking rapidly.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but there was a fair bit of evidence for the covering up of the fire, both while it was burning and afterwards.