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Botched water cannon salute grounds Virgin Atlantic flight when Foam is used.
A Virgin Atlantic passenger jet was grounded after a botched ‘water cannon salute’ by airport fire tenders clogged up its engines by spraying thick foam instead of water. The water canon salute is the sort of flamboyant gesture for which Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic airline has become famous – and also marks something of a wider aviation tradition. The Virgin Atlantic plane – with its ‘Beauty Queen’ name emblazoned on the fuselage of the Airbus A330-300 - had just landed in Manchester… (www.dailymail.co.uk) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
...Now wacth the next rule to come ... no more water salute for airplanes...,weakliest link rule the world !!
NIce going....ACE.
It should buff out....
Could be worse...the guy could be aircrew.
It seems that every airport fire service has one member of team that does not understand the mission on any given day. Most days things go well and they have nothing to do except hang around the fire house, grow moustache's, and cook bad chili.
You'd think a promotional appearance would be well planned and executed being that there is plenty of time and no pressure of life and property in danger. I can hear Sir Richard muttering under his breath "Monkey Country, No Bananas."
You'd think a promotional appearance would be well planned and executed being that there is plenty of time and no pressure of life and property in danger. I can hear Sir Richard muttering under his breath "Monkey Country, No Bananas."
Let's see them spin this one as pilot error 8-)
He did taxi right into foam!
LOL.....Yeah...That big dummy.
Photo seems to show the A/C dripping at the gate. Was it parked at the time?