College's training plane for fighting fires visits NASA

The flames were raging, and the cries of people trapped inside the plane were audible, even from well over a hundred feet away.

Yet no one looked particularly worried, CNET reports.

No lives were actually at stake. This is training needed by firefighters for certification to work airplane fires.

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In the past, explained NASA Ames fire chief Steve Kelly, his firefighters would have had to travel to places like Salt Lake City to get their annual certification, a process that meant doling out nearly $100,000 in expenses and which precluded the department's being able to do the training with their own trucks, and on their own turf.

But this year, for the first time, Moffett Field--which is adjacent to NASA's Ames Research Center--is playing host to the Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting trainer. The ARFF setup is a Federal Aviation Administration-approved mobile trainer brought in by a team from Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Mich., where it is based, that travels around the country serving crews that need to take care of their annual certification.

To find out more about the plane that keeps going up in flames, read the rest of the story.

Source: CNET