Fire Extinguishers in Aircraft Engines
I have been told previously that the fire extinguishers on the end of the Fire Handle / button / lever were 'engine wreckers' - if you fired the extinguisher into the engine, the engine would suffer damage from the extinguishant that would render it good for nothing but scrap.
You might argue that you would only fire an extinguisher into an engine that was burning so who cares whether it ended up as scrap.
But what if you were receiving ambiguous indications and that 'you thought' the engine MIGHT be burning ?
If you fire the extinguisher into the engine 'just in case' and the engine was in fact NOT on fire, have you damaged the engine beyond repair ?
Thanks in advance for your replies.
Cheers,
Wings