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Raine,Aug 2 2005, 09:16 PM Wrote:I dunno what people are thinking saying that the reaction time for airport emergency officials was slow. According to the passengers, it was less than a minute from the time the aircraft came to a stop till when the crews were on scene spraying the plane down with foam and water. I highly doubt that if indeed the response time was as slow as people say, there would have been no fatalities. If you look at the pictures when the people are up at the 401, emergency crews are already there. I think people were just flagging down motorists in order to get as far away from the crash as possible incase the remaining fuel (which couldn't have been that much) exploded.
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That size aircraft still has approx. 20,000 pounds of fuel on landing....sounds like alot but compared to the over all weight of this aircraft it's nothing...

20,000 pounds of jet fuel (Gallon of Jet Fuel weighs 7.9 lbs or 3.6 kgs), so really it's only 2500 gallons of fuel....enough to start a fire thats for sure.