Before I was flying 121 I was offshore in helos in the GOM and was about 100 miles offshore on a Natural Gas platform. I was on the helideck passing the time when the two bozos working below broke a 600 gallon container of Nitro Methonal (drag fuel) open which dropped through the grate and landed on a glycol evaporator. It of course exploded and shot flames all over the place Since I was on the helideck I was shielded by the fire and blast and the other two guys had the sense to run as well. We did a hasty evacuation and of course the wind was blowing the flame over the top of the helo so I had to take off down wind which of course resulted in a pretty damn good over torque. As I kept thinking we're alive we're alive the further we got. Then I noticed my door was open and the seat belt was hanging out the door and I was sitting on my lifevest. But we were alive. When you are on a 10,000psi NG bomb you would tend to think that. We were lucky the safety system clicked in and shut in the well.

121, Two flap failures in a day, yawn.

135, among all the numerous boring electrical failures and system failures that were too numerous to list and are not notable, one I had I like to share for all pilots. Sitting on top of a hospital roof pad I lost all radios. I was inside the class D under the approach at BFL. Not the place to take off from and scare the tower etc. Not having the tower hot line with me I called 800 wx brief and got the briefer to look up the number for me which he gladly did. I called the tower on my cell phone and was cleared right in. While not really interesting stick it in your memory locker it might come in handy.