[willyone]

If you check the accident records you will find that over a dozen 747 aircraft have blown up on the ground and in flight. Fuel tanks suspected. Why they do not pressurize these tanks with nitrogen when empty is a mystery.

[acehai]

If you check the accident records you will find that over a dozen 747 aircraft have blown up on the ground and in flight. Fuel tanks suspected.

And I'm sure you won't have a bit of trouble supporting this allegation with appropriate URLs where we can all peruse these accident records, will you?

Is your source Christine Negroni, by any chance?

BBWAAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[Tymesup]

The Wall Street Journal had a brief article some months ago. Some entity had determined that they expected one fuel tank explosion to occur over the next twenty years. Therefore, they did not recommend changing fuel tank design. I don't recall whether this was all of this particular plane/fuel tank or all of them, but either way, it's a lot of planes and not a lot of explosions.