Some excitement at work yesterday, when a Taiwanese airliner caught fire at Naha airport, the island's only commercial airport. Reports of burning aircraft naturally cause some distress amongst aircraft mechanics such as ourselves. It seems that there were no deaths or injuries, so their egress plan worked. Hmmm… too bad I'm not scheduled to give any egress lectures soon, or I'd work it in somehow.

Also, it shut down our flight ops for two hours, becuase the Marine aircraft crash and fire trucks headed down to help as soon as the call went out; and with them gone, our airfield ops got shut down. We didn't mind the break, as we're really shorthanded right now, so maintenance is behind schedule and falling further back by the hour.

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