Emergency Procedures

Hot brakes indicators (3); hot brake temperature

1. Wheel is too hot to get near

2. Axel overtemp is popped, melted, or missing

3. Brake wear indicator is broken, melted, or missing

Temperature: 750° F

Hot brakes procedure (6)

1. Notify aircrew by waving hand in front of face & pointing to afflicted brakes

2. Taxi aircraft to hot brake area OR 300ft away from aircraft/personnel

3. Stop aircraft completely with wind blowing towards brakes

4. Chock nose landing gear &* release brakes

5. Shutdown engines & remove aircrew, allow no one near hot brakes

6. Notify maintenance control and wait for fire department

Brake fire indicator (1)

Brakes are on fire

Brake fire procedures (4)

1. Stop aircraft

2. Chock nose landing gear and release brakes

3. Apply firefighting extinguishing agent by bouncing it off the ground in a sweeping motion

4. Notify maintenance and wait for fire department

Internal engine fire indicator (1)

Black smoke & flames shooting out of the exhaust

Internal engine fire procedure (4)

1. Notify aircrew with Lazy 8 and to shut down afflicted engine

2. Hand signal for wind milling & pointing to the afflicted engine for 5 minutes

If fire persists;

1. Tell aircrew to continue wind milling for 5 minutes

2. Proceed toward intake & spray firefighting agent off of the inboard side of the intake at a 45-degree angle

External engine fire indicator (1)

Black smoke & bubbling paint (Doors 53, 54, 64, 65, 68, 69)

External engine fire procedures (4)

1. Notify aircrew with Lazy 8 and pointing to the afflicted engine

If pilot is unable to shut down the engine…

1. Pull the canon plug & put the fuel shutoff valve to the closed position to shut down the engine & repeat for the other side

2. Open Door 65L/R or 69L/R in front of your face to protect you from the fire

3. Spray firefighting agent into the door

APU Fire indicators (1)

Black smoke & flames coming out of APU Intake/Exhaust (Doors 52/302)

APU Fire procedures (5); necessary APU spool down time before firefighting agent & why

1. Notify aircrew with Lazy 7 & point at APU

2. Wait 9-11 seconds for APU to spool down

If APU still does not spool down…

1. Enter the nose landing gear wheel well & hit the APU Shutdown Switch

If APU still does not spool down…

1. Proceed to Door 13L & pull the APU Prime circuit breaker

2. Wait for APU to spool down & spray Halon into Doors 52/302

Necessary APU spool down time: 9-11 seconds before firefighting to prevent explosion due to rapid cooling

No brakes indicator (1)

Tail-hook is down & all lights are on