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.