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Old Aug 26, 2008 | 1:22 am
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Originally Posted by Rambuster
Cool Video ! Thankfully nobody got hurt and the fire brigade was one the spot pretty quickly. Amazing how a quick burst of foam/water from the fire truck put out the fire within seconds!

There was a report on spiegel.de too, stating that the landing gear caught fire. I don't know how this can happen, but probably something to do with hydraulics oil catching fire ?
Probably not what happened here, but it definitely can happen: see here for a A346 test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRzWp67PIMw
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