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EDUC8-or · October 17th, 2006, 11:29

I was doing a walk around the other day and I saw a plane that was starting their APU. It sort of hung for a while and all of a sudden a big flame shot out of the APU exhaust area. About 10-15' worth of flame. I walked over and let the crew know (it wasn't my airline) and they were pretty surprised, but could smell lots of smoke when they turned on the packs. I don't know much about the systems on the airplane, but they let it run for about 2 minutes to burn off the fuel and then shut it down. They walked over and thanked me later, I guess there was a big pool of fuel somewhere in the APU area which really shouldn't happen. Kind of stinks when you can't just pull the mixture to idle or dry motor the engines to put the fuego caliente out.

Crazy site nonetheless!

October 17th, 2006, 11:29	#8
EDUC8-or Old Skool Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: NC Posts: 2,177	Re: Engine fire on startup I was doing a walk around the other day and I saw a plane that was starting their APU. It sort of hung for a while and all of a sudden a big flame shot out of the APU exhaust area. About 10-15' worth of flame. I walked over and let the crew know (it wasn't my airline) and they were pretty surprised, but could smell lots of smoke when they turned on the packs. I don't know much about the systems on the airplane, but they let it run for about 2 minutes to burn off the fuel and then shut it down. They walked over and thanked me later, I guess there was a big pool of fuel somewhere in the APU area which really shouldn't happen. Kind of stinks when you can't just pull the mixture to idle or dry motor the engines to put the fuego caliente out. Crazy site nonetheless!