News British Airways 777 Flight 2276 Fire at Las Vegas

[Col_Klonk]

[/COLOR]The big news outlets are now squawking that the "fire suppression systems didn't work". :facepalm: They're spinning the FUD for eyeballs, but what they are failing to mention is that the fire suppression systems were fully functional - they didn't work because they weren't where the fire was on the aircraft!

.. or that they only work in sealed environments where the halon gas works.
Any ruptures to the sealed environment.. flying engine parts and other goodies, halon only has a limited effect and most likely will not stop a fire - now where's the fire engine.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

.. or that they only work in sealed environments where the halon gas works.
Any ruptures to the sealed environment.. flying engine parts and other goodies, halon only has a limited effect and most likely will not stop a fire - now where's the fire engine.

It depends on the fire detection system in use... I could see flying debris giving a false fire alert in the engine if they use a closed loop detection system. If the debris clips the sensing circuit and kinks it... a false positive alert is a real possibility.

 

[TachyonDriver]

Soloviev (one was almost 500 hours beyond service life)

Wow - good bit of Russian engineering, built tough! How was it allowed to get so far over the hours I wonder? Some two-bit African airline?? :facepalm:

 

[PhantomCruiser]

You have to love how they described what caused it: 'Uncontained Engine/Disc Failure'.

That's a really polite way of saying that the engine just blew up, right?

Well, you can't say it "blew up" anymore. It's got to be a "post-ignition" or some crap like that.

On the shuttle mission where they were hauling back an ammonia something-or-other the crew were having problems getting all the bolts to seat (only 3 of 4). In the end they used a "torque-multiplier" which is mech speak for "cheater bar".