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Passengers told not to take pics of petrol streaming from wings of plane

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« on: February 09, 2009, 06:55:13 am »

Rattled passengers were told not to take photos as fuel streamed out of the wings of an Air New Zealand jet bound for Los Angeles.

Flight NZ6, with 365 people on board, was forced to turn back about 20 minutes after leaving Auckland on Saturday night when the pilots were unable to retract the landing gear.

"People were pretty calm, but there were a few nervous moments there when they started dumping fuel," a passenger told The Dominion Post.

"It looked like it was raining down, it was streaming from the wings. They were telling people to stop taking photos, I'm not sure why."

The pilot told passengers a sensor in the cockpit had gone off and that they were going to dump fuel before returning to Auckland.

"They said that was why the plane was vibrating so much, because of the drag of the landing gear," the passenger said. "We flew around for about an hour then they landed again. Nobody was in the brace position or anything, it was a routine landing."

Another passenger, David Duignan, told Radio New Zealand many people applauded when the plane landed safely.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4841561a11.html?source=RSStopstories_20090209
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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2009, 07:48:22 am »

I'm amazed they even managed to take-off without the aeroplane exploding in a huge fireball if they were running the engines on PETROL. Gas turbine engines run way too hot for a volatile fuel like petrol, which has a very low flashpoint. Normal practice is to run gas turbine engines on low-grade parafin (kerosene) known as J1. No wonder the aeroplane started vibrating if the engines were running on PETROL instead of J1 (according to the title of this thead). That would be like trying to run your car with nitro-glycerine in the fuel tanks instead of petrol. Very, very dangerous practice. I trust the police are investigating whoever refulled the aeroplane with PETROL instead of J1?
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« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2009, 09:14:18 am »

....passengers were told not to take photos as fuel streamed

no where in teh article is Petrol mentioned...

L'lee should amend the title to the thread ....  Wink
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« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2009, 10:22:35 am »

Well at least the heading got you attention
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2009, 10:32:24 am »

Pfft ... petrol - fuel.

6 of one, half a doz of the other  Grin
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