Dude.....did you fart or are we on fire?

[chperplt]

Air ambulance crew mistake fire smell for farts

A Norwegian air ambulance crew almost ignored the smell of an on board fire because they thought it was just the patients farting.

They noticed a cabbage-like smell which turned out to be a blaze near the front window of the aircraft.

An investigation has traced the smell to burning wire insulation.

"Everyone who has flown knows that gases arise that need to slip out. It isn't unusual that this happens to our patients," said ambulance chief Geir-Arne Soerensen of Air Transport, the company responsible for the flight.

The flames flared up three times, despite attempts to extinguish them and smoke soon started to fill the cabin, according to Aftenposten.

The co-pilot managed to bring the plane down, where an emergency evacuation took place.

 

[LA Confidential]

I spent 9 very painful hours once on an Air India flight once… I’ll never do it again.

 

[avbug]

I remember having a fire in a 182 in a remote mountainous area once. A certificated pilot was in the right seat, and one passenger was in back. We were involved in a CAP flight at the time, doing damage assessment to a mountain resorvoir following an earthquake.

I thought I smelled something, which turned out to be frying insulation. I asked if anybody else smelled something. The individual in the back looked like Tony Curtis when he was younger, and had a thick accent that matched. He replied, "I smell burned olives!"

I was in a house that caught fire once, and thought someone had burned cookies. It wasn't until I came downstairs and found the kitchen and bathroom area fully involved that I realized it wasn't someone cooking (that was before I was married...after being married, I probably would have thought it was my wife cooking...).

It's not uncommon to mistake a fire for something else.

 

[enigma]

Refer to your QRH for fires, but for flatulence a tin of Altoids is the best. Open the tin then blow the mint dust into the air. Better than nothing. I used to fly Lears with a co-capt who was a very efficient processor of methane. He thought that I was addicted to Altoids

regards,
enigma