I hope that passenger mentioned in the original post gets the maximum $25,000 fine. First offense? That is all it could take. In 1983 Air Canada Flight 797, en route from DFW to YUL via YYZ, had a disaster thanks to a lavatory fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797

As a result of this accident and other incidents of in-flight fires on passenger aircraft, the NTSB issued several recommendations to the FAA, including:
- the installation of that emergency lighting we all get briefed on during safety talk (at or near the floor; at least some passengers who died on 797 got disoriented in the thick smoke and couldn't find their way out.)
- Safety Recommendation A-83-70, which asked the FAA to expedite actions to require smoke detectors in lavatories, and various other recommendations. (see Wikipedia link above.)

One of the people who died was folk singer Stan Rogers, all of 33 years old. Here's to you, Stan, we lost you far too soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI


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