Re: There has never been a spontaneous mid-air fuel tank explosion.
I listened to an aviation expert on the radio this AM. He said that the vast majority of info coming out in the media after a crash is wrong so that speculation is unfounded. He said the FAA is brutally methodical in its persuit of evidence. And he added that because of the war, his guess was that this would be fastracked.
But hey, this IS a place for informed, defendable speculation so I find Splinx stuff on this of some interest. He doesn't post & run but defends his arguements. And he doesn't post arithmetic miscalcualtions and then go into a funk if demonstrated wrong. But I'm not an aviation buff who can sort the details.