Pat Hatch's PhotoJournal

Fire in Flight – Page 7.

I remember thinking, I'll be damned if I'm going to burn alive in here after what we just went through.  It appeared that we were trapped inside the airplane, but as I opened the pilot's side window I began to sense the fire was receding.  I quickly got about halfway out the window and realized I still had my headset on.  I threw the headset back into the airplane, grabbed the pitot tube mast and slid down to the ground.  I ran like hell through the fire and came upon the rest of the crew a few yards in front of the airplane.  It was a scene of pandemonium as we celebrated our survival and as the fire department arrived and began battling the fire.

Fig. 10 - Fire crew arrives, crew is out of the airplane

Fig. 10 - Fire crew arrives, crew is out of the airplane

Fig. 11 - Fire crew battling the blaze.  #3 and #4 engines without props.

Fig. 11 - Fire crew battling the blaze. #4 engine is resting on the raised-gravel helicopter landing pad without its prop.