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To: thirst4truth
has any fuel tank explosion happened on any other plane in history?

A 2007 article says there have been 17 such incidents since 1960, although TWA 800 was the worst.

Here are a couple of others:

Philippine_Airlines_Flight_143

Thai_Airways_International_Flight_114

93 posted on 04/17/2015 1:42:13 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded
Thai_Airways_International_Flight_114 /I>

This proved to be an assassination attempt. The explosion was actually caused by explosives (RDX, PETN, etc.).

94 posted on 04/17/2015 2:29:55 AM PDT by okie01
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