Allegiant Engine Fire

I'd be interested to see the burn through times on the md, vs. the emergency egress times in real life situations.

I'd almost be willing to bet that even without ground fire equipment, for and originally contained engine fire, that most, if not all of the people could evac before fire in the cabin becomes a huge issue.

I remember seeing a video of a 737 in japan burning on the ground, and everybody makes it out before the trucks got there... And the 73 was burning fuel at the tanks. The tanks on the MD's are a long way from the burning engine.

Then again, I've never tested it myself, so who knows.
 
TUCKnTRUCK said:
I'd be interested to see the burn through times on the md, vs. the emergency egress times in real life situations.

I'd almost be willing to bet that even without ground fire equipment, for and originally contained engine fire, that most, if not all of the people could evac before fire in the cabin becomes a huge issue.

I remember seeing a video of a 737 in japan burning on the ground, and everybody makes it out before the trucks got there... And the 73 was burning fuel at the tanks. The tanks on the MD's are a long way from the burning engine.

Then again, I've never tested it myself, so who knows.
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Evac likely wouldn't be a problem, and with a working fire airborne, chances are if its severe enough, it'll burn itself off the airframe before it impinges the cabin.

On the ground though, it could be a very different story. Depending on winds following stopping, what's a relatively small fire could easily become a conflagration if it has burned through fuel lines and if the fire becomes external and begins burning over the fuselage. British Airtours Flight 28M found this out on an aborted takeoff from Manchester, England in 1985. And their incident was from a cracked engine combuster can that lead to explosive failure of the can, fragments of which fractured a fuel access panel. Winds, made worse by the direction the aircraft stopped, and fuel feeding turned a small fire into an inferno quickly.

Interestingly enough, this accident was one of the fastest ever recorded CFR responses, where there was no prior notice (coming cold out of the station). IIRC, it was less than one minute from alarm to first agent on the fire. Still there were 55 fatalities.
 
This is some great information about how airports are classified differently according to their emergency vehicles. Great post MikeD.
 
Hey Mike,


My younger brother (17) is aspiring to be a firefighter although he has no knowledge of ARFF, just the city stuff. Don't know if he would be interested or not, but im curious...how does one go about getting a job doing that?
 
Donny Boy said:
Hey Mike,


My younger brother (17) is aspiring to be a firefighter although he has no knowledge of ARFF, just the city stuff. Don't know if he would be interested or not, but im curious...how does one go about getting a job doing that?
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I'll PM you.
 
Thanks! I'm getting sworn in next week to be crew chief'n KC-135Rs for the guard with the 157th at PSM...i know there is a LONG line to get on ARFF with the guard there...but i'd imagine air force firefighting would set him up for the civilian world as well. Thanks alot!
 
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