Talk:Oxalyl chloride

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There's something wrong in this article, the reaction to create Cyalume with Oxalyl chloride is not with phenol but with 2,4,6-trichlorophenol...

[edit] Aircraft damaged by improper shipment of oxalyl chloride

I thought about adding the section below to the main article but then decided it was too far off the topic of oxalyl chloride itself though it is an example of how corrosive oxalyl chloride can be.

On 15 March 2000 eighty canisters of oxalyl chloride were falsely labeled and declared as a non-toxic solid substance, hydroxyquinoline, and shipped as cargo via Malaysia Airlines from Beijing, China to Chennai, India. One or more canisters leaked on the first leg of the flight which was from from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur. The flight crew detected an acrid odor before landing in Kuala Lumpur and five ground handlers in Kuala Lumpur were taken ill when unloading the canisters.

The passengers disembarked without incident but inspection found extensive corrosion damage to the fuselage, wing box structure and landing gear. The six-year-old Airbus A330-300 was so badly damaged that the manufacturer concluded that it could not be repaired. Following extensive inspections by Airbus and insurers the aircraft was declared a constructive total loss about a year after the incident. ^[1] ^[2]

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