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12th Nov 2010, 06:22

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Waaaay off topic, but diesel air-intake shut-offs are common in the oil/gas industry (among others), to be able to kill runaway engines in a gas-rich environment.

Was a factor in the Deepwater Horizon/Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico...