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Originally Posted by Admiral Halsey
A fire? What's the longest a jet has flown while on fire?
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Its possible that the fire was extinguished, but the crew was left overcome by smoke. Not extraordinarily likely - but plausible.
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Originally Posted by Dread Knot
While making several turns at waypoints to boot.
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Assuming the FMS was operational and the diversion to an alternate was programmed into it (basically typing in the airport identifier and selecting an arrival from the list of procedures) the autopilot would have flown the whole segment until it reached the last waypoint and then would have probably defaulted to heading mode and synched the autopilot to continue on that heading until the pilot told it what to do from there. No conscious pilot translates to no FMS interruption translates to hold what you got til ya run outta gas