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From: smize@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Samuel Mize)
Subject: Re: ARIANE-5 Failure
Date: 1996/06/08
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Date: 1996-06-08T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <31B84662.7930@lmtas.lmco.com>,
Ken Garlington  <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:
>David Weller wrote:
>> 
>> The "Delta Clipper" has done very well so far, with no disastrous
>> failures.
>
>Didn't DC-X have a pad fire?

As I recall from Aviation Leak, venting hydrogen built up under the
"skirt" around the engines.  I *think* it happened in flight, and
they landed it.  It may have been on the ground.

The working components were intact, and I believe it was flyable, but
they (sensibly) were going to check it over and replace the blown-out
skin panels before flying it again.

So, (1) it's a judgement call whether that was a "disastrous" failure,
and (2) it wasn't a software failure anyway.

But yes, they did have a fire.

Samuel Mize