There were a million reasons to not buy the govt. story. But here’s one. The so-called “investigation” walked like a coverup, quacked like a coverup, in fact was indistinguishable from a coverup. Down to who actually did the investigating. If memory serves the usual procedures weren’t followed but a “special” investigative procedure was. A bit like how JFK had to be autopsied in DC despite established procedures called for the autopsy to be in Dallas. Pretty accurate analogy.
If you’ve got something to hide take control of the “investigation” and do it in a time, place and with people that you completely control.
Of course, there are plenty of other reasons to doubt the fuel tank theory - this is just one of many.
That highly irregular tidbit alone raised red flags for me.
Right down to transferring the Navy vessels used to recover the wreckage to the special forces command to remove the whistleblower protections for the crew. (wasp?)