TONY,
     In a message dated 12-02-97 you wrote ...
> about the fuel pumps would arch in the older aircraft. He told me
> about 2 months before and after TWA he came up to me and said "I bet
> it was a fuel tank if it wasn't a bomb." I suppose he was right.
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 So your friend says IF it wasn't a bomb?  That is the
 question that has been going on... A timer to a small
 detonator dropped into the tank COULD have caused the
 ignition...
 With the Billions of hours of Boeing aircraft flights
 how many fuel tank explosions have there been. I have
 4,000 hours in B-52s and other Boeing experience.
 B-17, B-29, B-50s, KC-97 and do not ever remember a
 fuel tank explosion... except due to flak or cannon
 fire...
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
... Different opinions-basis for Horse Races & Black eyes!
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