Your positive about this. Again, I do not disagree, I just remember seeing a show on television where an NTSB official was citing a crash in France due to the same circumstances.
Remember that NTSB official might have been a Clinton operative (Hillary's FBI files).
Read the original article of this thread and see that an EX NTSB official is the one being qouted by the MSM.
Are they qouting him the same way they do Ramsey Clark, Murtha, Pelosi,Kerry? The same as Wilson, Berger, or a source who remains confidential due to secrecy of what WE, the all powerful OZ (I mean NYT), have chosen to reveal to you.
Is this ex official the same one you listened to back then?
Very likely. (No blame, no ridicule, just offering up food for thought).
If I recall correctly, there were 26 incidents involving fuel tank explosions... the vast majority involving military aircraft and JP4. On almost all, there were extenuation circumstance totally unlike the conditions on TWA-800.
The CWT on a Boeing 747 is not just a fuel tank... it is a box girder system to which the wings are attached and on which the entire fuselage is mounted. Had it "exploded" the integrity of the girder would have been vastly compromised and the wings would have come off very quickly. The reconstructed wreckage does not show such massive damage. The CWT did eventually "explode" in the disaster but it was highly unlikely it was the initiating event.