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Old 18th Nov 2014, 11:41
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Airbanda
 
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@Piltdown Man,

I am merely an observer of both the FlyBe incident and the Emerald Accident and am not qualified to make a detailed critique of flight deck action in either case. I do though stand by my comment that a longer time in the air would certainly, or at least very probably, have been catastrophic in the circumstances of G OJEM.

The AAIB report at Conclusions/Findings point 2 refers to an immediate substantial nacelle fire. At point 4 of conclusions it refers to significant leakage from the fuel heater and fire which posed a considerable hazard to the aircraft (my bold/italics).

The crew were alerted to the fire by the cabin crew via interphone (AAIB report p3).
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