The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered airlines to shut off fuel pumps on Boeing 737s when there is a low level of fuel remaining in the center tank.
Fuel tanks have been blamed for an explosion last month aboard a Thai Airways Boeing 737 and for the 1996 destruction of TWA Flight 800.
The FAA's action on Friday comes four years after the National Transportation Safety Board made a similar recommendation following the TWA Flight 800 crash.
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And the foregoing is precisely my point. For every question raised, there has been an "official" answer. Until you can PROVE missile or bomb all this is all just suspicion.
For every question raised, there has been an "official" answer.
So, where the Boeing models involved 'grounded' when TWA800 happened?
Why did it take FOUR years for them to issue this DIRECTIVE?
Notice it says they issued 'similar recommendations' four years ago. A recommendation is not the same as an FAA DIRECTIVE.
Was the outer skin of the TWA800 ripped OUTWARD or INWARD?
Did all of the EXPERIENCED PILOTS and WAR EXPERIENCED PILOTS have hallucinations, when they claimed they saw a missile trail?
What kind of testing was being done by the NAVY? Were they testing a missile? What method of destruction was this missile(if it existed) designed to effect?
If the CWT caused the explosion, why was the FAA,NTSB not allowed to do the investigating? Why was the investigation and recovery done by the NAVY?
If you follow all the reports, in order, you get a strange picture. One of coverups and deceptions. One of lying to pacify the public.
Seems like there are as many theories on why that accident occurred as there are on TWA800.
One thing I know is that you do not run a pump 'dry'. There is a thing called a FUEL GAUGE that can tell you (and your equipment) that the fuel is low or gone, and shut the pumps off.
For what conceivable reason would you have pumps running, if your tank is empty?
In the Thai accident, if you put all the pieces together, you have this.
The AC units were left on all day, heating up the AC units which are mounted under the CWT. This heated and expanded the Fuel/air mixture. The pumps were left running, even though the CWT was empty, causing overheating and spark ignition in the tank.
This ignited the fuel/air mixture causing an explosion which also ignited the C-4 that assassins had attached to the plane.
The explosion in the CWT caused a fire in the cabin of the plane. This burned for almost 20 minutes before causing the collapse of the shell/framework of the airliner.
It would appear that the purpose of the CWT on boeing 737's is not to hold fuel, but to hold flammable vapours that will explode upon ignition by fuel pumps which run dry until overheating. I know boeing engineers must have designed it this way on purpose.
In the Thai airliner explosion case, the FBI has stated that there is absolutely no evidence of a bomb. They also state that they have not received all the samples from the Thai's and that not all the samples they have received have been tested yet.
And just what would you speculate caused a giant hole in the side of the jetliner, a hole which is nowhere near the CWT????????????????????????????????????