I don't see how a battery-related fire could explain Malaysian #370. Before wreckage was reported sighted, the news said it turned around, flew below the radar, went over the Indian Ocean (or, north over Myanmar and toward west asia). Transponders were turned off. No may-day distress call. Continued flying for hours (on the wrong corridor?).
Until they pull identifiable debris from the Indian Ocean, I think it's still a question whether it crashed. If it did crash (and all the things I said above are true), I don't see how a battery fire would explain it.
Until they pull identifiable debris from the Indian Ocean, I think it's still a question whether it crashed. If it did crash (and all the things I said above are true), I don't see how a battery fire would explain it.