REFLECTOR:Secondary fire detection
John Dibble
reflector@tvbf.org
Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:58:37 -0400
How does the fire happen?
John
richard@riley.net wrote:
> I know of one fire in a canard (long ez) and 3 in conventional planes
> (regular certified stuff.) The fire in the Long EZ was fatal, it burned
> away his control system before he knew what was happening. In the
> certified birds, one in a Malibu burned through the firewall before they
> knew what was going on, killed the CFI and horribly disfigured the
> student. The other two knew they had fires and stopped the engines and
> deadsticked, and lived.