A new high reach extendable turret (HRET) crash tender with a piercing nozzle will be deployed at Nagoya Chubu Airport from August 2024, the airport’s operator Central Japan International Airport announced earlier this month.
The new vehicle is manufactured by Germany’s Magirus and improves the airport’s firefighting capabilities by allowing the boom to extend further and get closer to an aircraft, thus minimizing effects of wind on the fire fighting efforts and improving the safety of staff. The piercing nozzle also allows for extinguishing fires inside cabins and cargo holds.
Nagoya Chubu’s newly acquired crash tender can hold up to 12,500 liters of water, 800 liters of liquid fire extinguishing agent, and 300 kg of powder fire extinguishing agent, and extinguish at a flow rate of up to 5,500 liters per minute. The truck’s turret can reach up to 17 meters high.
According to the airport operator’s statement, Chubu Airport is in the process of upgrading its firefighting equipment and plans to add one more Magirus HRET crash tender to its fleet later in FY2024 (year ending March 31, 2025).
