Fire damages $200-million C-17 at Wright-Patterson AFB

[Flyingmonster]

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (WDTN) – An engine malfunction led to an expensive airplane catching fire at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.


C-17 catches fire at WPAFB. (Photo/Jacob King, Jeannette Wright)

A base worker sent WDTN.com and 2 NEWS a photo from January 7, 2015.

A base spokesperson for the 445th Airlift Wing says the plane caught fire when they started the engine. The malfunction caught the tailpipe on fire.

2 NEWS obtained a memo from the fire chief of Fire Emergency Services at Wright-Patterson. Jacob King commended the firefighters for getting the fire knocked down quickly. He says in his memo that damage is about $1.5 million to the $200-million aircraft.

The base spokesperson says paint was charred under the wing. No one was hurt.

http://wdtn.com/2015/01/13/fire-damages ... erson-afb/

[Skip]

Oops, looks like a JATO C17 gone wrong

[TankBuster]

Ouch! I'd say that was a bit more than charred paint under the wing!

After that fire there will be some very severe heat damage to the structure of that airframe, and any wires, hydraulics etc within it. She wont be leaving the ground any time soon .


TankBuster

[POL]

I wonder if the picture makes it look worse that it is? Looks like some oil has caught fire in the exhaust, causing a rather large flame out of the back of the engine - the flames apparently up the side of the fuselage look more like reflections?

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Taking the photo at dusk has probably saturated the camera to make it look a lot worse but that's going to be more than a bit of soot to dust off.

[venom]

thats some photo thank goodmess the crew were ok
colin