PUBLICATIONS Vol.49 | No.7 $9.00 JULY 2020 | ainonline.com USAIG Accidental hangar fire foam discharge is a growing Hangar fire foam systems: a problem in the aviation industry, with one event occuring on average every six weeks. The cleanup solution looking for a problem? costs from each can involve numerous insurance by Curt Epstein claims and in some cases lawsuits, pitting aircraft For FBOs, OEMs, and other hangar keepers, senior v-p of insurance provider Global Aero- could be worth more than 10 times the price owners and operators the inadvertent discharge of fire foam sys- space and the author of a white paper on the of the building. against hangar keepers tems is a persistent and growing problem. topic, stated that the average value of foam dis- As aircraft increased in size and fuel and fire system providers. Nearly everyone has seen photos taken in charge claims he has seen has been $1 million. capacity, fire authorities began to worry the aftermath of one of these events—a NATA estimates the overall clean up and air- that sprinklers would not be able to ade- hangar filled with a thick layer of foam that craft damage costs of those events at between quately reach and fight any fuel spill fires can reach 10 feet high, spilling out on to the $64 million and $235 million. that occurred under the ever-widening ramp in some cases. The National Fire Protection Association wings, which at the time had an unpleasant Electric Aircraft In a way, accidental foam discharge is like (NFPA), considered the world’s foremost tendency to leak fuel onto the hangar floor. the social disease of the FBO industry. Those governing body on building fire code regu- continues on page 34 Magnix, AeroTec make who have had one don’t like to talk about it lations for more than a century, addresses first flight page 14 with anyone outside of their insurance pro- aircraft hangars under its 409 standard, Read Our SPECIAL REPORT viders, and ditto for foam system installers which was last updated in 2016. While and maintainers, in fear of stigma from cur- NFPA has no rulemaking authority on its Completions rent and prospective hangar customers. own, its guidance is generally accepted as Yet, according to a study commissioned by an industry standard and referenced by Pilot, mx training Comlux finishing first the National Air Transportation Association state and local governments when approv- Training providers have had to adapt BBJ737 Max page 16 (NATA) from the University of Maryland’s ing hangar construction. their facilites and processes during Department of Fire Protection Engineering, The 409 standard was established more the coronavirus pandemic to meet the since 2004 there have been at least 137 inad- than seven decades ago, at a time when the needs of flight crew and technicians. Insurance vertent hangar foam discharges—an average of hangar cost more than the aircraft it was Pandemic effect one every six weeks. It’s a trend that has been sheltering. 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