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The role of the airport's fire crews on the ground - who, according to Prof Braithwaite, aim to get to any fire within two minutes - would also have been (1) key in ensuring there was time to escape.
"The fire service focus will absolutely have been on protecting the exits and making sure there was a clear path for people to evacuate," he said. The larger fire, he explained, would only have been dealt(2) with after the last person escaped.
Source: Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno by Kelly Ng & Flora Drury
I'm trying to understand the use of "would have been" in the text.
1. "would have been" is the past form of "would be"
2. "would have been dealt" is the past form of "would be dealt"
Am I right?
"The fire service focus will absolutely have been on protecting the exits and making sure there was a clear path for people to evacuate," he said. The larger fire, he explained, would only have been dealt(2) with after the last person escaped.
Source: Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno by Kelly Ng & Flora Drury
I'm trying to understand the use of "would have been" in the text.
1. "would have been" is the past form of "would be"
2. "would have been dealt" is the past form of "would be dealt"
Am I right?