Originally Posted by
ElNull
Yes, but that goes against what Boeing recommended in Engine fire checklist, which is that discharging two bottles might not be effective and could even reduce the effectiveness of the first one. I mean if the second bottle had a real chance of putting out the fire and stopping an evacuation, why didn’t they include it in the engine fire checklist?
Listen, you’re not
stopping an evacuation once it’s started.
Youre using the second bottle as a Hail Mary to save the hull from burning to the ground.
The fire might be dying out already, just residual oil burning or it may still be a raging pit of hell.