Wheel of Fire

[g1344304]

too bad they tried using water on a wheel well fire. Its a magnesium fire, use dry powder/sand - never water

[tircalina]

Que torpes los bomberos

[buybygb]

Airbus forgot to make fuse plugs for the tires! If they did, the plugs would melt and let the air in the tires escape instead of ending up with the tires blowing up!

[Mojocvh]

Jeez, sure hope it never comes to real fire when I'm on a cab at toulouse....

[Grantola]

These firemen are shit. Reminds me of the pathetic sharks from Viz.

[flybabeL39]

Garçons rugueux ! Toujours un critique de nous français ! Vous ne pas comprendre cette. Nous devons sauver notre le eaux fines pour rendre inestimable ''Eau de Toilette''?

[metalmagpie]

You are missing the point. That guy had no chance with the low water pressure he was given (French or not). It isn't until the last few seconds of the video that he has sufficient pressure to actually reach the fire from a safer distance. Also what was the other appliance up to? They did not seem to become involved at all!

[Cyermyer]

I work airside and someone was paralyzed not so long ago when he walked up to a hot tire from the side.The tire blew and the force broke his back.Our training teaches us to approach tires from the tread side NEVER the sidewall.

And yeah these look like idiots.

[victorbrunella]

1 X 0 to A340

[180mph]

Perfectly normal except for the amateur fire brigade, what a bunch of IDIOTS.

[HAWK21M]

The Emergency crew seems too casual & the Extinguisher medium pressure seems too low.

[macclesfieldman1973]

bloody hell! Where these guys prepared for that?

[DrSteinwater]

careful the french might decide to start a war.

[A320airnz]

Is this what happened after a RTO test? I must say the responce team did a really Sh** job!! Didn't have anough people/water going anywhere!

[WESTHAMICF]

Every commercial aircraft manufacturer goes through this process, they must give it a set time before the emergency services are allowed to react, in order to simulate realistic response times. The heat is from the carbon brakes which simply caused the tyres to expand rapidly, and really isnt as serious as it looks- if anything its poor preparedness from the response team.

[RC21114]

Sorry, you don't know what your talking about. See this link for pictures of the "safely deflated tires".

The wheels didn't "safely deflate", the wheels exploded. You can really see the debris during the film, from the wheels exploding.

In contrast, the film of the B-777 (a real airplane) test shows what should have happened. (The tires safely deflating, wheels intact, and small rubber fires easily dealt with after the specified delay for the test.)

[alexcarmex]

I think you may have misinterpreted my response, I work with the BAA within a safety consultancy company, I know the wheels didn't deflate as planned, the plugs are meant to melt safely and predictabally, however my gripe lies with the emergency service who undeniably went in against SOPS to the side of the still hot tyres.

[lyneham1234]

why may i ask

[guillermoromera]

Safer to fit A340 with skids ...