[Governor Dinwiddie]

Interesting. Thanks for your analysis. It didn't seem like an engine fire exactly. It seemed like a fire around the engine.

[blackdog]

Yes. I think it was an engine that found itself in the middle of a structural fire that was cooking inside the wing root and engine pylon. The moment the engine spooled up to max thrust all that oxygen (air) fueled the flames, and then the fuel bladder burned thru. A fire requires three things. Remove any one of the three and the fire goes out.

#1) Fuel.

#2 Oxygen.

#3 Heat.

[anton]

I’m not buying the engine fire thing at all. A relative ran the test cell at GE in Adams County Ohio and they shot everything from frozen geese to RPG’s into those engines and all they did was shut them down and activate fire suppression.