Posted on 03/30/2015 12:09:35 PM PDT by Gamecock
Full Title: Inaugural Virgin Atlantic flight cancelled after botched 'water cannon salute' sees firefighters spray plane with FOAM... clogging up aircraft's engines
The water canon salute is the sort of flamboyant gesture for which Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic airline has become famous – and also marks something of a wider aviation tradition.
The Virgin Atlantic plane – with its ‘Beauty Queen’ name emblazoned on the fuselage of the Airbus A330-300 - had just landed in Manchester with 188 passengers on board after its high-profile inaugural flight from Atlanta, Georgia in the USA.
...instead of pure water splaying down the aircraft, it was fire-suppressing foam which got into and clogged up the vital and sensitive jet engines and hi-tech turbine blades.
As a result the spluttering plane, dripping with foam residue, was grounded and forced to undergo a top to bottom safety check-over running to thousands of pounds by Virgin Atlantic engineers.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Who runs that FD? Kramerica?
Champagne bottles are hard, and too many planes were being dented by people missing the placed hard object (think sash weight) and hitting the not so hard sheet aluminum.
Aren’t some fire fighting chemicals corrosive?
Hey, chief.....
He can’t hear you. He’s out looking for another job.
“pure water splaying down the aircraft”
Who writes this stuff?
At least it wasn’t an oil-filled rubber ball.
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