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Flapping_Madly

18th Sep 2006 21:50

Undercarriage fire on take-off

Qatar Airways at Barajas aborted takeoff when undercarriage caught fire. Newspaper reports "hysteria" when chutes deployed. Last Friday.
Is this unusual ? The fire I mean. I can understand it on landing--just.:confused:

TheSailor

18th Sep 2006 23:04

Hello,

Maybe a brake system malfunction..?

armada

18th Sep 2006 23:13

Undercarriage fire? I thought I had the same once, but it turned out to be from that dodgy Mexican restaurant :ok:

Max Angle

18th Sep 2006 23:14

More likely a rejected take-off for some other reason which caused an undercarrige fire. At high weights and high speeds the brakes will almost certainly catch fire due to massive energy they have to absorb.

Airbubba

18th Sep 2006 23:47

See:

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=243111

pigboat

19th Sep 2006 00:27

'Tis better to abort and have an undercarriage fire on the ground than to have this happen.

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