BA - Fire Suppression System Malfunction
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BA - Fire Suppression System Malfunction
Saw this on Facebook, apparently happened today, oops!
Source: AeroNews on Facebook
Image: facebook.com/AeronewsGlobal/photos/pcb.2930760220333392/2930759787000102/?type=3&theater
Source: AeroNews on Facebook
Image: facebook.com/AeronewsGlobal/photos/pcb.2930760220333392/2930759787000102/?type=3&theater
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Presumably an accident. Pictures from the Facebook post linked above.
Today’s incident from Heathrow airport: a fire suppression system apparently malfunctioned at TBJ or Tech 6, in the hangar where a Boeing 777-200ER (G-YMMB) BA was parked.
Controversial, moi?
Interesting that the system just spreads a blanket of foam at low level when a fire could start at any height.
In 1993 I was one of the two pilots who took a BA B747-400 down to the new maintenance facility at Cardiff. Everybody there was very proud of the place and we were given a guided tour. We were also shown some pictures of the fire suppression system test during commissioning of the building. This is also a foam system. What was quite amazing was that the hangar in the photograph we were shown had foam that was probably 30' or 40' deep! That would be effective.
In 1993 I was one of the two pilots who took a BA B747-400 down to the new maintenance facility at Cardiff. Everybody there was very proud of the place and we were given a guided tour. We were also shown some pictures of the fire suppression system test during commissioning of the building. This is also a foam system. What was quite amazing was that the hangar in the photograph we were shown had foam that was probably 30' or 40' deep! That would be effective.
Interesting that the system just spreads a blanket of foam at low level when a fire could start at any height.
In 1993 I was one of the two pilots who took a BA B747-400 down to the new maintenance facility at Cardiff. Everybody there was very proud of the place and we were given a guided tour. We were also shown some pictures of the fire suppression system test during commissioning of the building. This is also a foam system. What was quite amazing was that the hangar in the photograph we were shown had foam that was probably 30' or 40' deep! That would be effective.
In 1993 I was one of the two pilots who took a BA B747-400 down to the new maintenance facility at Cardiff. Everybody there was very proud of the place and we were given a guided tour. We were also shown some pictures of the fire suppression system test during commissioning of the building. This is also a foam system. What was quite amazing was that the hangar in the photograph we were shown had foam that was probably 30' or 40' deep! That would be effective.
According to some folks on Reddit, where they posted video, the foam system was triggered by someone starting the plane's APU in the hangar.
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I have a vague memory of Air France loosing a nearly new 747 when there was a hangar fire back in the 1980s.
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