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Jet fuel does not "explode" in fuel tanks. Nobody was ever able to make it explode in TWA800-like circumstances. At the very worst, in a very contrived setting, the fuel was set alight and it burned with a flamefront that took several seconds to traverse a scale model fuel tank. This does not even qualify as a "low explosive."

It did not rupture the model tank, though there are some theories that combustion products could possibly raise the pressure in the tank enough to do that. But the tank is vented, so even those theories are hard to support. Nobody has EVER made burning jet fuel rupture a full-scale or scale-model airliner fuel tank.

[Hunble]

Jet fuel does not "explode" in fuel tanks.

You and I both know that minor fact of chemistry, but we will not use this thread to discuss the subject. I wish the NTSB had placed a 747 fuel tank on Pikes Peak in Colorado (13,700 ft) and demonstrated their theory, but that is another subject. If they could get Jet fuel to explode at that temperature and fuel-air ratio, I would have been more than convinced.

You and I can both agree that a Nitrogen atmosphere would eliminate any possibility of a future fuel tank explosion.

Agreed?