Originally Posted by
Trip7
You keep trying to appeal on emotion rather than logic. I'll ask again, do you have any case studies where a brake fire engulfed aircraft, breaching the fuel tanks within 3 minutes?
Do you not think Airbus or Boeing built these planes to withstand 3 minutes of flames emitting from the brakes?
Also in one post you stated you would of ignored ARFF's recommendation to not evacuate in SLC but now you want me to ask an ARFF if they'd sit on a plane for 3 minutes with a brake fire? You do know it took 15 minutes to put out the fire in SLC right? It was determined the pax were safer inboard vs evacuating. That's called accessing the situation and expanding the team aka CRM
What emotion? Do you realize that there is more than one AARF person? I know you know I’m right and you know that people outside Delta have studied all these incidents and concluded there is no way to accurately asses the severity of a “small brake fire” until the investigation is concluded. That takes a lot more than 3 minutes. You go ahead and save ankles, I’ll save lives. If you do any GA flying with your family, do you tell them we will let the fire burn until AARF gets here if I determine it’s a “small fire?” Good luck holding people on the airplane when they see flames. You really should consider the fact that you probably won’t “command” anything when people are in survival mode. At least stop and configure. You can have an influence on an orderly efficient evacuation but the long er you wait the less influential you are. Then when you see passengers on the ground shut down etc. BTW is an aircraft fire in the time or no time bucket? Does your aircraft have a fuel tank structure compromised indicator?