[ml/nj]

The investigators know that the plane's center fuel tank exploded. They are also sure that it was caused by the scarcity of fuel in the tank (only 50 gallons) which left a tremendous amount of space for vapors to heat up while the plane sat on the ground for three hours before takeoff.

Color me unimpressed. Anything that mentions the Center Fuel Tank, and/or anything associated with it is disinformation.

ML/NJ

[RinaseaofDs]

Agreed.

Anyone that has done any inspections of large fuel tanks is that there’s a ‘sweet zone’ in which an explosion can occur. The amount of fuel left in the tank means very little. It’s the ration of fuel to air in correspondence with the volume. Too much fuel vapor, and air becomes too saturated to sustain combustion, too little and it won’t either.

I found the ‘bare wire in the CFT’ a pretty thin final cause. 747’s are built to take abuse. Fact is, for whatever reason, we are never going to know what happened. I’m fairly certain it had nothing to do with wires in fuel tanks.