To: Hal1950
Has this failure mode ever occurred on an aircraft other than TWA 800? Have the same conditions ever been present elsewhere?
4 posted on
05/04/2007 10:54:27 AM PDT by
toast
To: toast
Hey! It’s GREEN, this technology has the moral high go=round. We are not supposed to question it!
7 posted on
05/04/2007 10:58:28 AM PDT by
chaos_5
To: toast
Has this failure mode ever occurred on an aircraft other than TWA 800? Have the same conditions ever been present elsewhere?
Yes. Accidental center fuel tank explosions have occured in two Boeing 737s.
To: toast
To: toast
Has this failure mode ever occurred on an aircraft other than TWA 800? Have the same conditions ever been present elsewhere? At least twice. In 1990 a Philippines Air 737 and a Thai Air 737 both had explosions in their center wing fuel tank, fortunately while on the ground.
26 posted on
05/04/2007 11:14:39 AM PDT by
Non-Sequitur
(Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
To: toast
Has this failure mode ever occurred on an aircraft other than TWA 800? Have the same conditions ever been present elsewhere?The Sister Plane to TWA800 Blew up when hit by lightning
Sure it was the wing tank, and not the center fuel tank, but it shows a pattern of exploding fuel tanks on 747-131's.
54 posted on
05/04/2007 1:20:04 PM PDT by
UNGN
(I've been here since '98 but had nothing to say until now)
To: toast
Has this failure mode ever occurred on an aircraft other than TWA 800? Have the same conditions ever been present elsewhere? Nope. It has never, ever occurred on any aircraft, ever.
If it actually had, they would have grounded the fleet.
67 posted on
05/04/2007 1:59:48 PM PDT by
null and void
(The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.)
To: toast
There have been several instances of just this type of explosion occurring in military aircraft, especially large cargo aircraft. Some occurred on the ground, where the accident investigation determined the cause of the explosion. The most common cause of the explosion was either arcing from bad wiring or static electricity. Other occurred in the air, harder to prove but the accident investigation showed that a explosion in an empty fuel tank could have occurred. An example of this occurred when General Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., was flying to South Viet-Nam when his C-135 (Boeing 707) disappeared in flight. The investigation looked at an explosion in an empty fuel tank as the most likely cause of the crash. So yes, these explosions do happen.
71 posted on
05/04/2007 2:29:18 PM PDT by
ops33
(Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
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