Simviation Forum - Main hangar Sabena Technics burns down...

May 5^th, 2006 at 3:50am

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Lot's of commotion at EBBR - Brussels airport today... This morning the main technical hangar of Sabena technics caught fire. It's under control now, but the firedepartment has to let it burn down...

SN Brussels airlines A330's and the Belgian airforce C-130 Hercules amongst several other airlines are client there... It's going to be though for them...

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Reply #1 - May 5^th, 2006 at 4:12am

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The fire dept. let it burn down? Aren't they meant to put the fires out?

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #2 - May 5^th, 2006 at 4:33am

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Seems there was no other option than to let it die out in a controled manner...

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Reply #3 - May 5^th, 2006 at 9:46am

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Indeed, one of the managers of SN Brussels Airlines sent my father a bunch of pictures, I'll put some up.

In the meanwhile, you can hear about this on Euronews on TV, or for flemish-speakers http://www.demorgen.be/telex/?news=B317389.

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Reply #4 - May 5^th, 2006 at 9:51am

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SNBA planes are safe.
A C-130H of the Belgian Air Force was completely destroyed.

SNBA Manager Mr. Lemmen just contacted us to say that the fire has been extinguished and air traffic is back to normal.

Here are some pictures:

Pretty Major. Undecided

All heavy maintenance by SN Technics is shifted for now to adjacent Hangar 41.
Hangar 40 was completely destroyed.

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Reply #5 - May 5^th, 2006 at 10:33am

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Man that does look bad!

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Reply #6 - May 5^th, 2006 at 11:16am

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And yet another Armavia A320 lost... this time whitout personal injuries.

Other planes that were in there:
Armenian intl A320 (this one would have been used by Air Arabia to Kabul)
HellasJet A320
Beglian AF Herk

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Reply #7 - May 5^th, 2006 at 11:34am

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Reply #8 - May 5^th, 2006 at 12:07pm

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That does NOT look good! At least nobody died which is the most important thing!!!

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Reply #9 - May 5^th, 2006 at 10:29pm

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Wow, thats awful. Amazing noone died. I wonder how the fire started?

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Reply #10 - May 6^th, 2006 at 4:34am

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There isn't any official conclusion yet, but it seemed there was a team cleaning planes with a volitale, flamable product ( white-spirit). This may have caused the accident...

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Reply #11 - May 6^th, 2006 at 8:13am

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Ah well, at least no one was killed and all that was lost were a few relatively modern airliners and military aircraft, all of which easily replacable. Thankfully it seems that Sabena's most important aircraft, their formerly airworthy (and being restored to airworthiness) Westland Lysander is apparently safe.

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