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Old 28th Oct 2009, 04:31
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Hell, if this were a QF flight, we would be up to page 4 already.
I heard that Qantas had an engine fire up near Singapore a few weeks back. Not in the papers though.

It is believed the fire was caused by residual fuel in the planes tail pipe.
I have seen this occur a number of times on start up but unless I have lost some technical knowledge, I can't see residual fuel causing a 3 second fire at altitude.
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