Electrical fire in MH370 cockpit?, or, Can one argue with a pilot?

The trouble with that theory is that they would be unlikely to be overcome by smoke when wearing oxygen masks - which they would undoubtedly put on in such a situation.

John

This "theory" is COMPLETELY DEBUNKED by the facts of the flight path of MH370 by multiple reconstructions. GIVE IT UP, ALREADY!!

Sadly Flyguy is arguing from "facts" he doesn't provided links to. We know that there isn't a "fact" that Flyguy can't interpret as supporting his notion about what is going on (even when they directly contradict them), so his unsupported assertions are a complete waste of bandwidth.

If you haven't already read my theory, it may be of interest:

Theories are interesting when they put together real evidence about things that have actually happened.

Your exposition didn't link back to any real data. so it isn't remotely interesting.

Ambulance chaser logic. The plane went done, Boeing is worth suing, so it makes sense to allege that there was a defect in the design of the plane.

It's not evidence about what did go wrong, merely speculation about what might have gone wrong. The "best theory" is still just a theory, and will stay that way until we find enough of the wreckage to learn more. which seems unlikely to happen.

Concerning an electrical fire, what about these 2 photos which show burn/scorch marks?:

They show discolorations. You can use an electron microscope set up to generate X-ray fluorescence from discolored areas to work out what is creating the funny colors.

The report doesn't mention the results of any such tests, so nobody seems to be taking the question seriously. I'm not going to either.

According to a lady on a yacht:

- I was looking at what appeared to be an elongated plane glowing bright orange, with a trail of black smoke behind it.

- The senior cabin crew member was summoned. At that point, a hiss was heard before a "tornado" of smoke appeared, accompanied by an orange glow....When phones are crushed or deformed, it can cause a lithium battery to become pierced. This, in turn, can cause the phone to ignite. According to the AAIB, a lithium battery is more likely to catch fire during or just after charging. At the time of the incident, the passenger had plugged the phone in.

But nobody seems to have taken her seriously. You do get lots of attention-seeking behavior after big news stories.

Somebody else's minor disaster, with no obvious relevance to this major one.

And what about this witness:

- There was no noise, just black smoke as a result of fires before it crashed into the water. There was a strong smell of acidic fumes in the air before the plane went down, he added.

- Lithium-ion battery fires generate intense heat and considerable amounts of gas and smoke. Although the emission of toxic gases can be a larger threat than the heat...

And this:

- Battery acid smells like rotten eggs or burnt rubber, and it has a strong acidic odor ...

But it's the Daily Mail, in 2019. The "witness" might have recorded an exact GPS location. but either nobody took him seriously enough to look for wreckage from the plane around there, or they looked and didn't find any. The Daily Mail is infamous for the dubious quality of its "journanlism".

This is a lead-acid car battery. You've been speculating about lithium ion batteries which you find in mobile phones which do get carried on to aircraft, but don't seem to blow them up.

Try not to look like a total idiot.

That incident was widely reported: