At the time I had a very serious discussion with my two brothers. One a 25 year pilot who few 747’s and the other an engineer who helped build the 747’s and then the 777’s. Both of them laughed at me when I said you cannot deny the 700 witness’. I even exclaimed, “the victims families want to sue Boeing for the fuel tank explosion, has any fuel tank explosion happened on any other plane in history?”
A 2007 article says there have been 17 such incidents since 1960, although TWA 800 was the worst.
Here are a couple of others: