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APU of a LH 747 in Frankfurt on fire
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) |
No auto fire protection on 74's?
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Automatic shutdown and the Halon bottle is discharged if a fire is sensed on the ground, so it can run unattended.
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Total non-event, solved by possibly the easiest checklist in the QRH.
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After all the excitement with Rolls Royce... any news is "slow" compared to that ;).
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Today it was kind of cold @FRA.
Did a little fire help?;) Sorry about joking, but that's a non event. |
edited to remove an incorrect statement because I'm stupid!
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Is post #1 implying the APU was manufactured by P&W?
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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 |
Same as most other Boeings....
I'll correct that...same as all other Boeings I've ever flown! |
Originally Posted by SMOC
(Post 6053361)
Spanners you sure? Our manuals state the bottle will discharge but on the ground only.
note to self: always read to the end of the page |
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