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Old 3rd Oct 2019, 04:21
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mickjoebill
 
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Originally Posted by Chiefttp
I’ll speculate that if there was a fire, the tower would have seen the smoke inflight and rolled the trucks. It seems that there wasn’t any sense of urgency on the pilots or ATC’s part so perhaps the inflight fire scenario may not have occurred.
In the previously linked radio exchanges between first responders... “District 5.. three and myself heard that plane go overhead and it didn’t sound good”
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