Corrosion on MD-87 and BAe 146 firefighters traced to incompatible retardants

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US investigators have determined that insufficient testing of a new retardant resulted in significant corrosion damage to two aerial firefighting aircraft owing to chemical incompatibility with the retardant already in use.

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