[2CAVTrooper]

“I never bought the exploding fuel tank business, it was almost surely shot down.”

I agree. There are thousands of aircraft with that same exact type of wiring as found in TWA800, and they’re not going KABOOM in midair.

The only other crash that I know of that was wiring related was the SwissAir 111 that had a fire in the cockpit causing a crash off Nova Scotia.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I worked for Fairchild doing sheet metal right out of high school, no jets, it was R4Ds, R6Ds, C119s, and the little fleet of B26s that launched the Bay of Pigs exercise. The avgas they all burned is a lot more volatile than J4 fuel and no one worried about spontaneous fires in fuel tanks, none of them were designed by careless people.

Some of the Cuban pilots were real swashbucklers, real heros, I'm proud to have met them and worked on those planes.