NZ Herc Fire at Christchurch

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Hercules catches fire at Christchurch Airport

NEW 1:50PM Monday Oct 06, 2008

There has been a fire on board a Hercules military plane at Christchurch International Airport.

Smoke from the engine was noticed by staff. An airport spokeswoman says the fire crews quickly brought the blaze under control.

Engineers will now investigate its cause.

Report from the NZ Herald

[tiger9999187]

From what I understand it was not a NZ herc but a NYANG LC-130 herc, tail number 63-3301. If thats correct, it had just been on a post-maintenance test flight, its been around the airport for a while doing high power runs etc

[Blue Line]

The Fire Boys wouldn't of liked getting there new $1.3 Mil Fire truck dirty:E

[framer]

The Fire Boys wouldn't of liked getting there new $1.3 Mil Fire truck dirtyhttp://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/evil.gif

You're right, they would have loved it!

Now they will have something to talk about when they wash it each morning :)

[TROJAN764]

I had a fire in the tailpipe of a Herc engine once (burning oil from a blown seal). The 'firies' shot a CO2 extinguisher in there and shattered some turbine blades with the thermal shock!:uhoh:

[9v-SKA]

The 'firies' shot a CO2 extinguisher in there and shattered some turbine blades with the thermal shock!

Outch! That must hurt.