LMAO that's EXACTLY what they said. The crew didn't have an indication of a fire, but ATC was like "Umm, Air Shuttle - you're left engine is on fire." They just shut it down and it went away. Could have been fuel or oil pooled up maybe since they were doing a crossbleed start (due to the APU) it may have aggrivated the situation. If they had blown the bottle or something we wouldn't have flown it. I had ramp drive the belt loader up to the front and rear of the engine and I was all up in there checking it out. I didn't see anything that jumped out of me, and I spent a good 5 minutes looking too. I think the can said something like:

"No evidence of fire noted. Ran several checks on engine, no defects noted. Ops check good."

lolololol



oops, sorry to hijack this thread. Just imagine if we'd have lost that engine in icing, with a broken APU - that would have been really bad. I definitely wouldn't have taken that plane had there been IMC - but there wasn't a cloud in the sky on the east coast. There - back on topic.