WAY off aviation topic, but a jet engine was involved! ;) For those into NASCAR, probably a first for this type of incident tonight.WAY scary I am sure for all involved.http://www.nascar.com/video/post-race/highlights/120227/cup-day-high-eight/index.html

And he goes down as the first NASCAR driver to break a dryer. Must be proud!

It is a great video as it shows how Jet Fuel ignites and how stuborn it is to extinguish. If that was Gasoline it would have ignited a lot faster and a bigger explosion. That fuel leaking from the truck made it down to the grass and the flames took time to trickle its way down to the grass as well. Took the guys a long time to put it out which shows how stuborn that fuel really is.Cheers

I could not believe that... I don't know what broke in Montoya's car, but that was a real wake up. I wonder what NASCAR will do in the future to give more protection to both the jet dryers and the maintenance vehicles?I hope this old dude can stay awake long enough to see the end. They have just called the drivers back to the cars, so there is hope.

Speaking of racing. There's a special on the Concordia cruise ship wreck on Discovery.

If that looks bad, check out this film of the USS Forrestal incident if you haven't seen it..http://www.archive.org/details/gov.ntis.ava19833vnb1It's a training film ("Learn or Burn") now shown to Navy recruits, but has all the footage taken during the incident. An electrical power surge as a missile on a fighter on deck was being prepared for take-off led to 134 deaths and almost destroyed the ship as a going concern. Horrifying.

If that looks bad, check out this film of the USS Forrestal incident if you haven't seen it..http://www.archive.o...is.ava19833vnb1It's a training film ("Learn or Burn") now shown to Navy recruits, but has all the footage taken during the incident. An electrical power surge as a missile on a fighter on deck was being prepared for take-off led to 134 deaths and almost destroyed the ship as a going concern. Horrifying.

What an incredible film. Thank you for finding it.Kind regards,

It's a training film ("Learn or Burn") now shown to Navy recruits, but has all the footage taken during the incident. An electrical power surge as a missile on a fighter on deck was being prepared for take-off led to 134 deaths and almost destroyed the ship as a going concern. Horrifying.

That video was used as a training film in 1970 and most certainly earlier. The original footage of course came from the accident in 1967. I saw that film in the spring of 1970 at the USN's AT A-School at Millington, Tennessee. Since nearly all of us at Millington in those days were bound for aviation related jobs, it was important to get the message across about complacency, changing the rules to suit, etc... The footage you see in this edited video does not include some of the horrific scenes that were originally presented to us.

"The footage you see in this edited video does not include some of the horrific scenes that were originally presented to us."For that I'm glad, but I imagine that if the idea was to drill safety into military recruits' heads then showing the worst of the worst was probably a good idea.