Smoke detected on aircraft wheels at Wichita airport, Wichita KS
Fire & ArsonAirport fire crews responded to an aircraft on the ground at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport with visible smoke coming from both the left and right main landing gear wheels. Crews applied water to cool the wheels and monitored brake temperatures. The pilot shut down engines as a safety measure. EMS was requested for a patient transport from the scene.
Audio|Source: Wichita and Sedgwick County Fire Resource / OPS-1
04:55
Transcript:
00:00
Airport Command, all units, go ahead and switch over to ground frequency.
00:03
That way the pilot can talk with us directly.
00:05
Rescue One, Airport Command, both left and right mains are producing a little bit of smoke off of them, but other than that, I think they look fine.
00:15
Commandant, RF1, can you 109 please? I was on the other frequency.
00:19
Both left main and right main are smoking.
00:22
Airport, Command, RF1, are you saying visible smoke and which gear is it?
00:27
There is visible smoke on both left main and right main.
00:32
Airport Command, Roger, ARF 2, why don't you get yourself set up in a little bit better position?
00:38
ARF 1, 2, Airport Command.
00:40
Can he power down a little bit?
00:42
Okay, bye. RF1, you want me to put some water on them?
00:44
Yeah, let's go ahead and start putting some water.
00:46
Ars3, go around the back side and you take care of the right main.
00:49
All right.
00:53
Rescue One to airport command.
00:54
Just for information, it is both wheels on both the left main and right main that are smoking.
00:59
Two and one, ten-four.
01:01
I'm talking about the pilot right now.
01:02
He has shut down his left name.
01:04
Airport command, the ARF 2 or 3.
01:06
The pilot is wanting to know what the break temperatures are.
01:08
So where are you guys getting on your flare?
01:09
Rescue One airport command.
01:11
On the tick, I'm getting 31 degrees Celsius.
01:13
Hello. After that first amount of water, I am not seeing any more smoke at the moment.
01:17
Marie, I'm still seeing slight smoke on right main inner wheel.
01:20
Command, copy.
01:21
Pilot said he's going to sit here for a little while and cool, so just go ahead and apply water as needed.
01:27
Rescue One Airport, Command, do you want me to get a closer look with a tick on those wheels?
01:31
Yeah, go ahead and do that.
01:32
Double.
01:33
Awesome engine two.
01:34
This patient actually wants transported via EMS coming our weapon.
01:37
I can get EMS started for you.
01:39
Do you want 37 or 39 traffic?
01:41
Regular traffic for you.
01:42
10 4, I'll get one started.
01:43
We're looking at 10 you get at like 45 47 Celsius.
01:47
RF1, 104, can you guys try to get a shot on the inner wheels just to make sure we got that covered?
01:53
Powerpoint in command, do you want us to get a little better angle on it? Yeah,
01:59
why do we do that? I want you guys to get some water in between the sets of wheels.
02:04
Is there any hot wheel you can contact the pilot? You still run its engine is pretty hot.
02:08
All the water is just going to fall away once we get the hull drill up in there.
02:11
I can have him shut his right engine down.
02:14
Yeah, that'd be great. If you're shutting down the right main, uh, we can the floor from three.
02:18
Airport Command 2, uh, 1, 2 and 3, uh, they're shutting that right engine down so that way you guys can get in there for a minute.
02:24
Time for our free is gonna reposition so we can get his head the hose rope from him.
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Location mentioned:
Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT), 2277 Eisenhower Airport Pkwy, Wichita, KS 67209
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