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4th Sep 2006, 19:57

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SirPeterHardingsLovechild

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You're both half right.

A chaffing wire short-circuited causing the Air Start Valve to open, spinning up the Starter Motor to self destruction, the turbine shooting through a fuel tank. Not Krapton though.

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