Originally Posted by Iron Duck
Does anyone else fancy having a pop at the pre-existing fire theory
I already did earlier....
Without any physical proof at all of such a fire, we only have a few highly contradictory "witness reports".
And postulating a pre-existing fire, starting a few
seconds before all the conditions were reunited for a
real fire, is really pushing things a bit too far from the bounds of probability and reality.
Originally Posted by bearfoil
JetBlue had a nosewheel event at LAX where the wheel was ninety degrees to the Heading on landing, It left a trail of sparks that extended 20-30 feet back, and to a height of perhaps at least two metres.
So?
We can all quote even worse incidents/accidents of the same style, but where is this relevant here?
We're talking about the
MLG here, and a tyre burst.
Unless you are suggesting sparks from the MLG wheel after the tyre burst ignited the fire... not totally impossible, I suppose, but not even mentioned in the report as a possible cause.
Probably because some sparks well aft of the MLG would not have had enough energy to ignite the fuel leak to the extent of the flame propagating back to the wheel well (my opinion entirely).
CJ.