Jet engine on fire- causes?

No, I'd guess it has more to do with being a CRJ, than with who is flying it, I think
 
flhrci said:
So if you have a fire before you even start any checklist, what then? Let it burn? Lol


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Same checklist and same amount of time. Fire Bottles is like 6th on the list. I mean I'm not saying it's 5 10 minutes later, but it's a good minute or two before you get to that step. Got to factor in figuring out WTF is going on, pulling out the QRH, looking in the index for ENG FIRE, finding that tab and flipping to that page. That engine can burn for a good 15 minutes, so I was told, before it melts the mounts.

Only really two true emergencies in this plane. Rapid or explosive loss of cabin pressure at altitude and a thrust reverser deploy in-flight. Most everything else can wait a minute or so.
 
I would think if you evacuate the aircraft for a visible fire you would through the checklist out the window and activate the fire suppression system. By the picture I'm guessing the fire suppression had not yet been activated.
 
AKBill said:
I would think if you evacuate the aircraft for a visible fire you would through the checklist out the window and activate the fire suppression system. By the picture I'm guessing the fire suppression had not yet been activated.
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I'm guessing it had been activated while rolling, was ineffective, so they stopped and evacuated.
 
Zeldman said:
Is this what happens when the engine "back fires"...????
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Usually when an engine has a compressor stall/surge, it keeps running and sucks the fire back into the engine. Looks like something in the fuel system broke, disconnected, leaked, kept flowing or came from together and if the engine was shut down, the fuel burned where it was in the nacelle.

Cheers
 
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AKBill said:
I would think if you evacuate the aircraft for a visible fire you would through the checklist out the window and activate the fire suppression system. By the picture I'm guessing the fire suppression had not yet been activated.
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Any kind of engine fire on a rear engine jet is all but impossible to see, except from maybe the last two rows of seats. Certainly it's not visible from the flight crew, all they have is an indication from the fire warning bell and light.
Why would you throw out the checklist? That tells you the proper way to shut down the engine and cut off all the fuel, hydraulic and electrical and blow the bottles correctly.
The extinguisher bottles only discharge in the outer accessory section, that's where the fuel, hydraulic and electrical components are. It does not discharge inside the engine core where the turbine and compressor blades are.
If for some reason there's an excess amount of fuel already pooling in the core or the cowling, the extinguishers may not put that out.
 
Tantalum said:
These same people vote, mind you, and have a say in laws that govern you and me
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Do not forget they breed too. Yikes! The more of them are allowed to breed, the more of them will vote and soon intelligence will be voted off the island.

Now learn to say with me: "like oh-em-gee, like yeah, you know, like fer seerus, like ...".
 
probably due to terror. or an old lady with ball bearings and a really good arm.....
 
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