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To: ItisaReligionofPeace
"Oh, so a plane’s fuel tanks never explode. Riggghhhttt."

Not full. Not empty (see our U.S. Air Force desert storage aircraft).

Not even shot. http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2004/07/mythbusters_scuba_diver_in_a_f.html

It takes a *large* boom to actually set off fuel tanks...even catching them merely on fire takes effort.

That's why NBC was busted for using high explosives to film their "exploding pickup truck" instead of simply filming the real thing (and pickup trucks use a far more volatile gasoline fuel than the kerosene used by civilian passenger jets...see Car Caper #3: http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2004/07/mythbusters_scuba_diver_in_a_f.html ).

132 posted on 11/06/2007 6:59:01 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

With all due respect, just because myth busters couldn’t reproduce it doesn’t mean that under the right conditions it could happen. Oh well.


157 posted on 11/07/2007 3:59:39 AM PST by ItisaReligionofPeace
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