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onboard the aircraft would immediately extinguish that fire automatically. so it's odd to me that this fire would have continued and continued. >> so this is probably a dumb question. but you're saying by the engines there are fire extinguishing devices that would automatically turn on? >> yeah, that's right. there's fire extinguishing bottles in the engine, the cell areas, so if this fire was in the cell, it would try to put that out. what that indicates to me is there may have been some kind of a breach in the fuel system to continue to feed that fire. so it's obviously preliminary. >> les? >> anderson, let me clarify a little bit what dave said. you have to -- we have to go through a checklist. we have to physically what we call shoot a bottle. there are bottles that we shoot or halon bottles that we activate in the cockpit that shoots fire retardant into that particular engine. in this particular case there's two on this engine. there's two fire retardant bottles that would shoot
there's fire extinguishing bottles in the engine, the cell areas, so if this fire was in the cell, it would try to put that out. what that indicates to me is there may have been some kind of a breach in the fuel system to continue to feed that fire. so it's obviously preliminary. >> les? >> anderson, let me clarify a little bit what dave said. you have to -- we have to go through a checklist. we have to physically what we call shoot a bottle. there are bottles that we shoot or halon bottles that we activate in the cockpit that shoots fire retardant into that particular engine. in this particular case there's two on this engine. there's two fire retardant bottles that would shoot directly into the engine itself but it's not done automatically. however, the continuation of the fire may very well have been as a result of the brakes heating. we've got on that airplane, there's three -- excuse me, six wheels on each main gear truck,