State-of-the-art fire tenders at Patna airport

Patna: City's Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport now boasts of three ultra-modern fire tenders. Made in Austria, the fire tenders, christened Airfield Fire Fighting Tenders, cost Rs four crore each.
Airports Authority of India (AAI), in fact, has purchased 40 such fire tenders, three of which were allotted to the Patna airport.
Each of these fire tenders has the capacity to carry 10,000 litres of water and 1,300 litres of foam and can spray 5,000 litres of water per minute. The vehicle attains the speed from 0 to 80 kmph within 36 seconds.
"The vehicle can reach any part of the runway within 40 seconds," the manufacturing firm's India representative Gaurav Bhartiya said. Another major feature of the new machine is its user-friendly design and it can be handled even by a single person, he added.
07/07/10 Times of India

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Categories: Airports Jul 2010