PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Egyptair B772 Cockpit fire July 2011
View Single Post
Old 4th Dec 2012, 07:25
  #18 (permalink)  
BOAC
Per Ardua ad Astraeus
 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: UK
Posts: 18,579
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Originally Posted by mini
The fire triangle - heat - fuel - oxygen.

Kill one, the fire goes out, ergo all three were present in this case.

Oxygen doesn't burn per se, it supports fire - big time...

I know, teaching granny to suck eggs...
- it ain't necessarily so. Read about oil and grease and oxygen. A two-sided triangle.
BOAC is offline