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Gerhard van Rooyen

Oct 10, 2026

4:01
Mm.
4:02
So my car was on one side and the airplane on the other side, and, and the, the containers were in the middle, about one, 1.5 meters either side of the containers.
4:15
Ja, and then, uh, um, I immediately realized I have to get the plane, both the plane and the car away from the danger.
4:23
Uh, there was nothing else really close by that would, would, uh, that had the potential of, uh, catching fire.
4:31
Uh, so I pushed the plane back to a sufficient distance from the flames, and then I ran, and I jumped in the car.
4:39
In the meantime, he tried to close the, um, the, uh, stopcock of the fuel on the hose, but the problem was this thing was burning, and the stopcock was, by then was very hot.
4:53
He couldn't, he couldn't close it.
6:20
But let's just get to it, because, I mean, you, you mentioned earlier that you've been doing this for more than 22 years, and suddenly, just on this day, it was a perfect storm that came together, which, what was different? What in your, what in your mind do you think happened? What was different on this day?

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