[steveegg]

Tire pressure change...Could the area where the tires were tucked have overheated causing a tire to blow? The heat might not have caused a problem for metal, but could it cause a tire to expand and blow?

While overheating of the area could have caused a tire to blow, it is unlikely that the tire fragments would have caused catastrophic damage. It is more likely that the same time the tires were heating up, so was the wing structure in the area and forward toward the leading edge and both let go basically simultaneously.

[lainie]

Right -- the tires heating would have been the first indication of extreme heat, goes the theory so far.

[Dog]

Turn on NBC....

[The Wizard]

it was just announced that if the tire blew, it could have blow off the gear door and some hydraulics