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Oct 10, 2026
His Plane Burst Into Flames! ✈️ Pilot Survives Freak Fuel Vapour Fire - Gerhard van Rooyen
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4:02Gerhard van RooyenGUEST
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.
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4:15Gerhard van RooyenGUEST
Ja, and then, uh, um, I immediately realized I have to get the plane, both the plane and the car away from the danger.
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4:23Gerhard van RooyenGUEST
Uh, there was nothing else really close by that would, would, uh, that had the potential of, uh, catching fire.
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4:31Gerhard van RooyenGUEST
Uh, so I pushed the plane back to a sufficient distance from the flames, and then I ran, and I jumped in the car.
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4:39Gerhard van RooyenGUEST
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.
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6:20Ruben DelmageHOST
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?