Notice that you didn't hear the Airline Pilots' Union go completely bonkers demanding that all similar aircraft be grounded and a design change made to stop such alleged center fuel tank explosions.
Had there been an actual *mechanical* safety issue with either design or maintenance, pilots would have refused to fly those birds. Professional Airline pilots do *not* work on flying bombs.
But the pilots knew better. Fuel tanks don't just self-detonate. Heck, NBC camera crews had to mount explosives on a *pick up* to get its gas tank to explode!