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Old 4th Nov 2010, 19:11
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Bralo20
 
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The fire truck is definitely spraying water not foam, I doubt qantas would want a double engine change!
Initially the firedepartment used foam, more precisely an AR-AFFF foam (alcohol-resistant film forming fluoroprotein), after that they switched to plain water. (Look at the pictures, the brown stuff being sprayed by the monitor on the crashtender is water mixed with 3% of AR-AFFF.

So that engine definately needs a good look at since AFFF causes corrosion.
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