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Barack Obama's Limo Breaks Down Taken By Tow Truck
The United States President, Barack Obama's first visit to Israel was marked by a totally unexpected and rather funny incident. The President's car, the armoured limousine, broke down without warning. The incident took place when the car was on its way from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport to Jerusalem.
The
Presidential
limo,
also
sometimes
called
‘The
Beast'
came
to
a
halt
in
the
middle
of
the
road
to
everyone's
surprise.
The
reason,
it
turn
turns
out,
was
the
use
of
wrong
fuel.
The
person
who
filled
up
the
car's
fuel
tank
mistakenly
filled
diesel
instead
of
petrol.
Find
images
from
the
scene
of
incident
below.
On a three-day tour of Israel and the Palestinian Territories, the American Presidential party faced an unexpected problem when the Presidential limo broke down due to wrong use of fuel.
Fortunately for Obama, he was spared the of any embarrassment since the incident took place before he had actually arrived.
Obama continued on as per scheduled in a back up limousine, a procedure the Secret Service always maintains for cases such as these.
The downed limo, meanwhile, was taken away by a local tow truck service, who found the whole incident very funny.
So, now the question arises. What happens when a petrol engined car is filled with diesel and vice versa.
The simple answer is, it comes to a halt because both engines function very differently.
A petrol engine works by igniting the vapourised fuel using a spark plug.
A diesel engine has no spark plug and instead ignites the fuel by injecting it into hot compressed air. This is because diesel does not evaporate at normal temperatures like petrol does.
Hence, when either of the two fuels goes into the other engine they simply do not ignite and may also end up damaging the engines.