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Delta Galley Fire

What: Delta Airlines Boeing 747-400 en route from New York to Tel Aviv
Where: New York
When: Dec 11th 2010
Who: 399 aboard
Why: After takeoff from JFK, the crew reported a fire in galley 2. While burning off fuel to land, the fire went out; but additional problems with fuel pumps were reported. The flight dumped fuel and landed an hour and a half after departure.

There was also a degree of interference with messaging between the plane and ATC caused by bleedover from a commercial station but not enough to cause problems.

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