In-Flight Fire in Emergency Landing: Badge & Meaning

In-Flight Fire is one of the three busiest emergency badges in Emergency Landing, with 1,815,660 awards and about 919 a day. The description is blunt: “Experience a hazardous fire on board while flying!”

In-Flight Fire badge data

What is in-flight fire in aviation?

Fire aboard an aircraft is the emergency with the least time to solve. Smoke and heat can incapacitate a crew in minutes, and the standard response is to descend and land as soon as possible rather than continue to a preferred airport. Swissair 111 in 1998 and UPS Flight 6 in 2010 are the cases most often cited in training because both began as a fire that the crew could not locate or extinguish in time.

How does it appear in Emergency Landing?

The badge covers a fire on board while airborne. The game tracks several other fire-adjacent events separately — Engine Explosion, Fuel Tank Explosion, Spilled Fuel Explosion and Hydraulic Fluid Ignition — so In-Flight Fire is best read as a cabin or airframe fire rather than an engine event.

Firefighting is also a crew duty in the game, with its own ladder of ten badges from Extinguish 1 Fire! to Master Firefighter. That ladder measures how many fires you put out, not how many you survive.

Related emergency badges

Fume Event is the quiet member of this group: a fume event produces smoke or odour without a visible fire, and its 594,350 awards put it in the same range as several engine failures. If you are chasing fire badges, the extinguish ladder is the more reliable target, because it rewards action rather than misfortune.

Where to read next

• All 93 emergency badges for the full list with award counts.
• All 238 badges for the complete badge set.
• Milestone badges for the survival and death ladders these events feed.