WM>On 04-20-98, JIM SANDERS most eloquently expounded thus...
WM>>           Passengers panic after false cry of fire on plane
WM>>      CHICAGO - April 20, 1998 08:37 a.m. EDT -- Passengers panicked
WM>>  aboard an American Airlines plane at O'Hare International Airport
WM>>  when someone saw sparks bounce off a wing before takeoff and
WM>>  shouted, "Fire!"
WM>>      The sparks are a routine occurrence, Bond said. But the
WM>>  passen-
WM>Hi Jim... or anybody else...
WM>With regard to the NEWS you posted, I was trying to figure out 
WM>what kind of passenger plane generated "sparks" off the wing, 
WM>as a "routine occurrence".
WM> 
WM>Sure different than any plane I've ever has anything to do with. 
WM>Anybody know?
Could it be the APU exhaust on top of the inboard right wing.  There has 
been numerous ground evacuations when the F/E started the APU and it 
frightened the passenger into thinking the aircraft was on fire???
Other than that......lightening?????   *:-<)
WM>~Mitch
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