Fire Tender deployment LHR 9/9
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Fire Tender deployment LHR 9/9
I'm sure it happens all the time, but any ideas why the fire tenders were crawling all over stand 123 at around 16:00 today (9/9). A BA 757 I think. No sign of serious drama, but we SLF are always curious . . .
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I boarded a BD 321 as SLF around 2100. Some minutes later Captain comes on to say we're being delayed until 2240 (slot) due to "an incident on the airfield". The delay failed to materialise and we pushed back about 10 minutes later. Incidently, we had a nice late Go-Around on approach to rwy 10 (DUB) due to "ATC decided to line another Aircraft up".
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I'm sure it happens all the time. Happened to me doing a pre flight / turnaround check on a 737 many years ago at gatwick (LGW). Chief fire officer approached and asked if I minded if he used the A/C for an excersise, no probs with me as A/C was on a 2 hour turnaround, he promptly called in a brake fire on stand 10, in less than a minute I was surrounded by a substantial ammount of very p***ed of firemen who had been caught on a shift change. So, my point is, to see lots of blue lights and fire engines dashing around an airport does not allways constitute an emergency.
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fire engines dashing around an airport does not allways constitute an emergency
