[freepersup]

# 1546: If both tires blew up in the wheel well (not talking thermal fuse and venting but explosive decomp due to tire and/or wheel failure) the overpressure in the wheel well will be in the 60(?) + psi range. The resulting loads on the gear door (a quarter million lbs) would almost certainly blow the door off the hinges or at least send it out into the slip stream...catastrophic.

I too wonder if this happened ? It probably wasn't the initial spark that lit the fuse... might have been the coup de grace though ?

[Budge]

1644 - Most definitely the coup de grace...if that happened.