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Old 28th May 2002, 02:32
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GoneWest
 
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I've got to say though - having thought about LastMinutes post (Welcome to Pprune, by the way - I see it's your first) - some of what the fire chief told me did strike an "odd chord".

The part about leaving everybody on board whilst they assessed the fire situation (as per TShirts post) did strike me as being a little odd.

Fire chief did say that they didn't want to put the aircraft next to the terminal building until the fire risk had been properly evaluated - so they left it on the runway. Sounded strange.

Was also surprised at the comment of "aircraft powered itself to the stand". I thought Sanford was all tug operations for getting onto stand. Surely if routine operation is to tug the aircraft onto stand, they would not let it self park on that same stand after an undercarriage emergency which could well have affected brakes and/or steering.
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