Investigators believe the crash was caused by a thumbnail-size fire in the ceiling above the cockpit.
Sounds of what seemed to be breaking glass and crashing dishes were also picked up by the recorder, microphones located in the pilots' headsets and in the ceiling of the cockpit.
A3 Theory on Swissair Crash Canadian investigators looking into the crash of Swissair 111 say a pilot's map light, built into the ceiling of the cockpit, may be a source of fire in that model plane, an MD-11.
Oxygen masks do not fall from the ceiling in the cockpit.
It really felt like a spaceship cockpit with a floor to ceiling glass wall overlooking the enormous room.
Recovered fragments of the plane show that the heat inside the cockpit became so great that the ceiling started to melt.
Consequently, flammable material propagated a fire that started above the ceiling on the right side of the cockpit near the cockpit rear wall.
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When intercepted, the Cessna was over 1000 mile off course and flying at an altitude of 41600 feet, 5000 feet higher than its maximum certified ceiling, and the fighter pilots could not see anyone in the cockpit.
Whereas the buttons in a typical cockpit face you, the top of the center console in the M45 is angled toward the ceiling.
