"Gord Beaman" wrote
(BUFDRVR) wrote:

I've likely started
thousands of aircraft engines and NEVER had an engine fire on
start

I've started 8 engines at least 300 times (2400 starts) and I've only had 2
engine fires on start and one of them was a torch that the crew chief, in my
opinion, over reacted to.


BUFDRVR

Sure...and just about anyone who starts a/c engines can say the
same...fireguards are a waste of time...

We had a DC-3 burn-up on start in Pleiku once. Course that was
a gasoline fire. It was full of body bags going to Saigon. What a mess.
Digging latrines was good duty that week. That was a month before
the Cathay Pacific airliner blew-up over Pleiku at 29k ft. We had
raining body parts on that deal.