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Old 23rd January 2006 | 01:10
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Old Smokey
 
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Just to keep the record straight, the Ansett ANA Viscount disaster was not a cabin fire, but an engine fire originating in an incorrectly lubricated Rootes blower. The resultant fire was uncontrollable, leading to (wing) structural failure in flight.

Not a correction to any of the historic facts, but I suspected that some readers may have thought of it as a cabin fire.

Regards,

Old Smokey
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