Are you talking about an internal explosion, or an external explosion? I’d imagine high explosives blowing into a jetliner would react quite differently than a pressurized tank explosion from within. How would you know where the wing tank would rupture first? The pressure should act upon all surfaces equally, and the tank should rupture at its weakest point, regardless of where the fuel was ignited.
Looks like you learned more from that Smithsonian “Air
Disasters” show than you let on.
I’m still going with even disbursal from an explosion in the
center fuel tank.
It blew the cockpit off the plane.
That doesn’t sound like an explosion whose force favored
one side or the other because of a ‘weakest seam’ scenario.