Jetstar Flight Deck Fire
 

Apparently a Jetstar aircraft had a fire in the flight deck somewhere in Qld recently... the story I heard is that sunlight was shining through a water bottle which somehow focused the rays onto the cover of a tech manual, which then caught fire.

Any truth to this?

Who was the pilot? Macgyver? :rolleyes:

I've started a fire with a water bottle before.. it can be done..

And no.. I don't have a mullet and carry a swiss army knife..

Sounds like bollox........ true or false I can't wait to see the kneejerk memos spilling out of BS castle!

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Forget about water bottles, I've been reliably informed of a Bell 47 catching on fire because of the sun being focused through the canopy...

You'd have to be bloody unlucky though! Loved the last line of the article:

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Good luck explaining that one to the boss... :}

Thankyou Jetstaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Maybe the tech crew were simply trying to heat the crew meals when things got out of hand??? Could this have been a new operational technique to get a hot dinner???

Sounds like a job for Mythbusters. For a start the water bottles are 1.5L so are too big to sit on the instrument panel shroud in a manner that would focus the suns rays. It would appear to be some more quality journalism from the tabloid trash. Care to comment FGD135?

The article is factually incorrect. The captain actually focused the sun rays out of his asre and this caused the fire.

sort out
 

how can i apply 4 LATC??

Lookleft,
Oh how cruel! :}

C'mon FDG, what's your take on this? :E

Might try this tomorrow. Anybody know what time of the day it was?

Hmmmm... I heard it was a bottle of Vodka......:ooh:

A Very Tricky Question
 

Bloggs
Let me give you a clue to your question: It wasn't night time ("sunlight was shining...")
;)

Well oh hot one, I did ask what time of the DAY, not NIGHT! :}

I searched the ATSB database and can not find any reference to this "incident".

Can anyone post a link to the ATSB Incident Report?

:confused: :confused:

Water to Go
 

Well Thats torn it. just the excuse they need now to axe the free bottled water for crew.:}

It sounds fishy to me. I doubt that enough solar energy would pass through the flight deck windows to create combustion even if the rays are focused by a good quality magnifying glass, much less a PET bottle of water.

I saw an incident happening in my old gliding days.
A glider pilot placed the perspex cockpit canopy on end on the ground adjacent to the fuselage on dry grass, and within seconds, the grass started smouldering and soon burst into flames. "Ahhh, the old magnifying glass trick 99." :uhoh: Fortunately we saw it as it happened or it would have beenan expensive accident.