View Full Version : APU of a LH 747 in Frankfurt on fire
dicks-airbus
10th Nov 2010, 14:21
Yesterday morning a 747 waiting for passengers in Frankfurt had its APU (Pratt & Whitney) catch fire. No passengers were on board and th captain put the fire out with on board systems. Firemen were brought to the airplane.
Source spiegel.de: Frankfurter Flughafen: Heck eines Lufthansa-Jumbos in Brand geraten - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Reise (http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,728315,00.html) (in German)
HPbleed
10th Nov 2010, 14:23
No auto fire protection on 74's?
bigduke6
10th Nov 2010, 15:17
Automatic shutdown and the Halon bottle is discharged if a fire is sensed on the ground, so it can run unattended.
dontdoit
10th Nov 2010, 15:17
Total non-event, solved by possibly the easiest checklist in the QRH.
dicks-airbus
10th Nov 2010, 17:41
After all the excitement with Rolls Royce... any news is "slow" compared to that ;).
hetfield
10th Nov 2010, 18:46
Today it was kind of cold @FRA.
Did a little fire help?;)
Sorry about joking, but that's a non event.
spannersatcx
11th Nov 2010, 01:21
edited to remove an incorrect statement because I'm stupid!
Is post #1 implying the APU was manufactured by P&W?
EW73
Spanners you sure? Our manuals state the bottle will discharge but on the ground only.
Either loop detecting a fire activates an APU fire warning which shuts down the APU and, on the ground, discharges the APU fire extinguisher bottle
Same as most other Boeings....
I'll correct that...same as all other Boeings I've ever flown!
spannersatcx
11th Nov 2010, 10:13
Spanners you sure? Our manuals state the bottle will discharge but on the ground only.
Correct, I was wondering if anyone would spot my deliberate mistake!:{
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