Fire at Sabena Technics

fokker_f27 · Post by **fokker_f27** » 09 May 2006, 19:06

But the fire must have spread fast. On some of the early pictures the fire still looked very small, but still the building burnt down completly. Did it maybe take long for the firemen to arrive?

Mike_Nissa · Post by **Mike_Nissa** » 10 May 2006, 09:45

Ovostar wrote:your pics don't work

Sorry I thing the links are disabled by some administrator.
You can go to this forum to find these photos:
http://www.airdisaster.com/forums/showt ... ge=2&pp=25

Post by **luchtzak** » 10 May 2006, 22:55

fokker_f27 wrote:But the fire must have spread fast. On some of the early pictures the fire still looked very small, but still the building burnt down completly. Did it maybe take long for the firemen to arrive?

Attacking fire in such a big building is almost impossible. Reasons? fire consists of 3 major items:

- fuel: with all the fluids, liquids, oils, etc... located in the building there is indeed enough material to burn,
- heat: at a certain time temperature was extremely high
- oxygene: plenty of it available to keep the fire going

take one of these 3 elements away and the fire will go out, but where to start ?

Mike_Nissa · Post by **Mike_Nissa** » 11 May 2006, 21:01

Thanks to Stef Vandersmissen:
http://www.bwzaventem.lunarpages.net/im ... ods40.html

Established02 · Post by **Established02** » 18 Aug 2006, 20:29

http://www.standaard.be/Krant/Tekst/Art ... demo=False

A specialised company is removing loose metal parts of the remaining construction. This intervention was required to maintain safety. Due to metal tiredness, heavy rain and wind there was a danger that some parts would fall down.

The ultimate cause of the fire has still not been determined.