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Old 03-18-2014 | 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by F4E Mx
Actually it is neither well-played or funny. The aircraft was a Cessna 337D, N2685S, that crashed on 4/1/1997. The FBO had requested that an industrial gas supplier set up a servicing unit. The gas company agent was used to dealing with fire departments and checked the wrong box, even though his company could have supplied aviators breathing oxygen. The bottles on the servicing dolly were painted a dark green, not the apple green used for oxygen bottles. After the accident several pressurized turboprop and turbojet were grounded until their bottles could be correctly serviced.
I stand corrected, had not heard of that accident before. I'd be interested to read that report.

I am not aware of any difference between medical O2 and what is carried in crew bottles. It is all Oxygen. What we use at work is indeed simply compressed room air. Introducing 100% O2 to a fire situation has a fairly......negative effect.
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