Emergency at O'Hare?
May 11, 2010 | 10:23 am
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Emergency at O'Hare?
A friend of mine was driving by O'Hare about an hour ago and saw a plane in flames on the runway. I searched, but found nothing. Anyone?
May 11, 2010 | 10:41 am
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My guess is Fire Department training. I see this quite often when landing at different airports. They usually practice on an old fuselage of some sort. Occasionally I've had captains come over the intercom to tell folks not to be alarmed.
Lets hope that's all it was.
Lets hope that's all it was.
May 11, 2010 | 12:08 pm
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DEN has a small fire fighter training facility, which has some small fire pits, and a shell of an aircraft that they light on fire throughout the year.
This link goes to the fire training facility, and even has a video of the fire fighters putting out the jet fire...
http://business.flydenver.com/arff/index.asp
This link goes to the fire training facility, and even has a video of the fire fighters putting out the jet fire...
http://business.flydenver.com/arff/index.asp
May 11, 2010 | 2:38 pm
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If it was real, you would have seen and heard it on the news/internet.
May 11, 2010 | 4:27 pm
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They do the training there regularly, and it usually results in a few panicked phone calls to radio stations and police reporting a crash.
