BA Hangar "foam party"

[texaxile]

I remember these in Ibiza back in the day, although there was music, dancing, beer and without a 777 parked inside

https://samchui.com/2020/05/04/forming-incident-in...

[Evolved]

So they use a foam fire prevention system to help prevent the planes from perishing in a fire, but the foam is actually detrimental to the aircraft as it’s corrosive - who came up with that one?

A 777 written off, they’re not going anywhere anytime soon so no biggy, nice little insurance claim there

[nessiemac]

Evolved said:

So they use a foam fire prevention system to help prevent the planes from perishing in a fire, but the foam is actually detrimental to the aircraft as it’s corrosive - who came up with that one?

A 777 written off, they’re not going anywhere anytime soon so no biggy, nice little insurance claim there

I think you will find that the B777 will not be written off!!

[nessiemac]

The Brummie said:

It was reported elsewhere that the foam was released by a disgruntled BA engineer who had just lost his job due to the ongoing virus issues.

Apparently he felt that after 37 years unblemished service he should have been treated better.

Nonsense!! Usual media made up bullst

[nessiemac]

The Brummie said:

nessiemac said:

The Brummie said:

It was reported elsewhere that the foam was released by a disgruntled BA engineer who had just lost his job due to the ongoing virus issues.

Apparently he felt that after 37 years unblemished service he should have been treated better.

Nonsense!! Usual media made up bullst

It was on a Facebook forum with the post made by someone who said he was in the hangar at the time.

Only reposting what I read. If wrong then I will happily delete the post.

I did read that and it was even in the "Scum" newspaper but totally wrong.

Worked most of my career in those hangars and all just made up buddy.

[Teddy Lop]

Evolved said:

So they use a foam fire prevention system to help prevent the planes from perishing in a fire, but the foam is actually detrimental to the aircraft as it’s corrosive - who came up with that one?

A 777 written off, they’re not going anywhere anytime soon so no biggy, nice little insurance claim there

I imagine stopping spread at all costs is the objective, with lots more hangers and expensive airyplanes knocking around, plus if you can stop a fire before there's a smoke column closing the airspace there'll be a few less quid someone has to stump up.

[The Brummie]

nessiemac said:

The Brummie said:

nessiemac said:

The Brummie said:

It was reported elsewhere that the foam was released by a disgruntled BA engineer who had just lost his job due to the ongoing virus issues.

Apparently he felt that after 37 years unblemished service he should have been treated better.

Nonsense!! Usual media made up bullst

It was on a Facebook forum with the post made by someone who said he was in the hangar at the time.

Only reposting what I read. If wrong then I will happily delete the post.

I did read that and it was even in the "Scum" newspaper but totally wrong.

Worked most of my career in those hangars and all just made up buddy.

In that case, hadn’t seen it in The Scum (hateful rag), I was wrong so I’ll remove the comment.

[untakenname]

In depth explanation of the incident and the different types of foam used here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty8PmBsdveM

[nessiemac]

The Brummie said:

nessiemac said:

The Brummie said:

nessiemac said:

The Brummie said:

It was reported elsewhere that the foam was released by a disgruntled BA engineer who had just lost his job due to the ongoing virus issues.

Apparently he felt that after 37 years unblemished service he should have been treated better.

Nonsense!! Usual media made up bullst

It was on a Facebook forum with the post made by someone who said he was in the hangar at the time.

Only reposting what I read. If wrong then I will happily delete the post.

I did read that and it was even in the "Scum" newspaper but totally wrong.

Worked most of my career in those hangars and all just made up buddy.

In that case, hadn’t seen it in The Scum (hateful rag), I was wrong so I’ll remove the comment.

Cheers Mr Brummie

[smack]

Source, a mate who in an Engineer who has worked in those BA Hangers for 20+ years when I asked him the other day about the Foam Party.

He wasn't working over the weekend, so knew nothing about it, but arrived at work early this week to find sitting on his desk a request to analyse a failed APU, which was a bit out of the ordinary. It had gone bang, and that isn't uncommon as they do fail quite a it, but they just replace them with a spare and send the plane on it's way. Said, the hangers have IR cameras to detect fires, for the automatic fire retardant system, and the 777-200ER's APU which went bang, so did what it was supposed to do.

Also said there is no way someone can just set it off, well unless they start a fire that is.

[nessiemac]

smack said:

Source, a mate who in an Engineer who has worked in those BA Hangers for 20+ years when I asked him the other day about the Foam Party.

He wasn't working over the weekend, so knew nothing about it, but arrived at work early this week to find sitting on his desk a request to analyse a failed APU, which was a bit out of the ordinary. It had gone bang, and that isn't uncommon as they do fail quite a it, but they just replace them with a spare and send the plane on it's way. Said, the hangers have IR cameras to detect fires, for the automatic fire retardant system, and the 777-200ER's APU which went bang, so did what it was supposed to do.

Also said there is no way someone can just set it off, well unless they start a fire that is.

Virtually spot on

[Fluffsri]

Out in the States a few years ago my shift set of the hangar system by accident. 4ft flame by accident was put out in seconds but the extinguisher kicked off and wouldn't stop. Anyway fire service arrived and gave a massive bking as we should have been a min of 50ft away because of the foam! What foam? Now this is where it got funny, the foam system was faulty so all it did was flood the place with the agent. Turns out the agent is corrosive on ferrous metals, ok for our aircraft but not great for the other aircraft in the hangar or my airframe repair kit that was open on the floor at the time.

Fire service said we were lucky in that it wasn't a proper fire and the foam wasn't needed and also that the foam didn't properly go off as it takes a professional cleaning company 2 weeks to clean the foam off.

We spent a day cleaning up the agent made of the hangar floor and all the kit in the hangar and i spent a day removing rust from all of my tools and re oiling everything, was not happy!