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NTSB Says 2006 Fire Caused by Fuel Contact with Hot Engine Surface

Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.

March 26, 2007

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that the probable cause of a fire on board a small passenger vessel in Massachusetts on June 12, 2006 was the ignition of diesel fuel by contact with a hot engine surface.

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