View Full Version : Saudi B773 smoke in cabin - carrying gasoline?
b1lanc
2nd Jul 2016, 18:50
From Avherald. Have to ask - gasoline? Normal ops for Saudi?
A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 777-300, registration HZ-AK25 performing flight SV-116 (dep Jun 29th) from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) with 144 people on board and dangerous goods (mainly gasoline)...
Well, they were already on my no-fly list. This just puts them on my super-no-fly list.
Chris2303
2nd Jul 2016, 20:06
A new version of coals to Newcastle?
KelvinD
2nd Jul 2016, 20:29
Allegedly, this was possibly fuel in the tank of someone's Roller/Maserati/BMW or whatever
listria
2nd Jul 2016, 21:03
Takes me back to the Aloha Combi with the pickup truck wobbling around on the other side of the curtains on the way from Honolulu to Christmas Island.
CodyBlade
2nd Jul 2016, 21:37
they air flown their super-cars to London for the weekend.
To drag on the streets.
Icelanta
2nd Jul 2016, 22:11
Herod,
Why would SV be in your No Fly list?
Standards are as high on SV as on the other ME3 ( and also on the AAI operated aircraft by the way)
Granted, no alcohol onboard, but anyone having a problem with that should not be in an aircraft, but in rehab.
A number of years ago, someone had brought some gasoline on board a Uni Air MD-90 as carry on luggage and the result was a total hull loss.
ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 B-17912 Hualien Airport (HUN) (http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19990824-0)
This could have turned out far worse.
Granted, no alcohol onboard, but anyone having a problem with that should not be in an aircraft, but in rehab.
That's a bit personal, and a wrong assumption. As it happens, I'm teetotal.
Granted, no alcohol onboard, but anyone having a problem with that should not be in an aircraft, but in rehab.
Really? There isn't enough clinic space to accommodate everyone who likes a glass of wine with dinner.
Just because you get done over in Iceland is no reason to deny everyone else a glass of wine.
mivens
3rd Jul 2016, 15:04
A couple of buskers managed to get a generator full of petrol under their seat (http://news.sky.com/story/124154/buskers-cause-petrol-scare-on-plane) on a BA flight out of Naples once.
And there was this Shenzhen Airlines arson attempt (http://avherald.com/h?article=489da82b&opt=0) last year, where a passenger used petrol to set fire to his seat on approach.
Wageslave
4th Jul 2016, 21:43
I rather think that a gasoline fire would have produced substantially more worrying symptoms than mere smoke in the cabin, don't you?