'water cannon salute' is swapped for foam and clogs engines

[coolkid101]

the pilots/passengers on the neighboring planes would be laughing their socks off in their seats.

Inaugural Virgin Atlantic flight cancelled after firefighters spray plane with FOAM not water | Daily Mail Online

 

[Hvr]

I reckon the fire service will have some explaining to do and maybe even some damages to pay.

 

[coolkid101]

I reckon the fire service will have some explaining to do and maybe even some damages to pay.

there're suggesting it might go into the hundreds of thousands. apparently the foam does some serious **** to the engines

 

[RooFlyer]

Remember the engine on QF32 could only be shut down using foam, not the ocean of water they first tried.