APU of a LH 747 in Frankfurt on fire

[dicks-airbus]

Yesterday morning a 747 waiting for passengers in Frankfurt had its APU (Pratt & Whitney) catch fire. No passengers were on board and th captain put the fire out with on board systems. Firemen were brought to the airplane.

Source spiegel.de: Frankfurter Flughafen: Heck eines Lufthansa-Jumbos in Brand geraten - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Reise (in German)

[HPbleed]

No auto fire protection on 74's?

[bigduke6]

Automatic shutdown and the Halon bottle is discharged if a fire is sensed on the ground, so it can run unattended.

[dontdoit]

Total non-event, solved by possibly the easiest checklist in the QRH.

[dicks-airbus]

After all the excitement with Rolls Royce... any news is "slow" compared to that .

[hetfield]

Today it was kind of cold @FRA.

Did a little fire help?



Sorry about joking, but that's a non event.

[spannersatcx]

edited to remove an incorrect statement because I'm stupid!

[EW73]

Is post #1 implying the APU was manufactured by P&W?

EW73

[SMOC]

Spanners you sure? Our manuals state the bottle will discharge but on the ground only.

Either loop detecting a fire activates an APU fire warning which shuts down the APU and, on the ground, discharges the APU fire extinguisher bottle

[EW73]

Same as most other Boeings....

I'll correct that...same as all other Boeings I've ever flown!

[spannersatcx]

Originally Posted by SMOC

Spanners you sure? Our manuals state the bottle will discharge but on the ground only.

Correct, I was wondering if anyone would spot my deliberate mistake!

note to self: always read to the end of the page