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Not having a power switch contributed to an electrical fire on Swissair MDM-11 planes with an upgraded 1st class entertainment system. The entertainment system did not have an off switch, it had bad thermal engineering, and a form of wiring insulation turned out to not be self-extinguishing in real life.


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