SQ emergency landing at PEK

Pitot SG

You have a higher chance of dying while travelling to the airport. so be careful ok? Laughing

Meia Gisborn SG

Most modern commercial airliners are equipped with fire suppression systems that dump a fire retardant right into the engine core.

I do not know how the system is set up on the current generation of airliners (and perhaps megatron can chime in on this), but the 737-100 that my dad used to fly had two pressurized Freon bottles located in the wheel well that could discharge their contents into either engine or the APU. On the flight deck, there were three red fire handles (one for each engine and one for the APU) atop the instrument panel just behind the throttle quadrant. Pulling the handle armed the system; rotating the handle counterclockwise discharged the first CO2 bottle into the selected engine or APU, and rotating it clockwise discharged the second bottle.

Edit: Corrected position of fire handles.

alexkusu SG

wah..pitot curse me Crying or Very sad

Meia Gisborn SG

Bring a parachute as carry-on luggage! Laughing

alexkusu SG

im bringing bottles of alcohol

in case the plane crash in the atlantic ocean Embarassed

Pitot SG

if u are coming to singapore why the hell is ur routing over the atlantic ocean. Laughing

megatron SG

Why? u are going to make the sharks drunk?.

megatron SG

Nowadays it's HALON ( aka Chloroflorocarbons bromides I think ) , same agent for Engine & Cargo hold. proc is like what u described..still same.
Boeing has levers for pulling, Airbus system is press button type. 2 agent each, except for APU, only one bottle.
as u can see from pic here.
my 0.02chimes

oh btw, thanks for explaining what a NOOB is. haha..that's me alright! (wink)

megatron SG

because they are not canadians.
I shall decline to comment on PK- ed carriers.

megatron SG

Whoa! Double RED FLAG!!!

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quote]Originally posted by buses_galore:
Personally I feel that Airbus has a higher standard of Safety than Boeing>All The Air Crash Investigations That I saw were on Boeing except for the MD-82. There was this Airbus that lost all its hydraulics when a missile hit it and it landed safely [/quote]

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