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Volume 65, Issue 12
1 December 1993
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| December 01 1993

Airport Crash Fire: Are you firing the right foam? Available to Purchase

Ulf Meyer
Ulf Meyer
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1993
Aircraft Engineering (1993) 65 (12): 15.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb037448

IN the first few frightening moments of an aircraft on fire on the runway, there is only one thing that matters — rapid knockdown and extinguishment of the fire to save lives.

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