Great articles!Maybe the same causes of these crashes:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-14-mn-8875-story.html#:~:text=Investigators believe a buildup of,off Long Island, killing 230.&text=If the static charge has,an electrical spark can result.
https://www.syracuse.com/news/2013/07/twa_flight_800_crash_due_to_fu.html
When Flight 800 crashed, we were lied to. It happened around the time of a holiday when many people were outside having barbeques & reported seeing a silver streak headed toward the plane just before it exploded. And there just happened to be a Navy missile testing site nearby.Great articles!
Thank you for posting them.
It's scary to think about, and while I hear it all the time, flying is safe and all, those words do nothing for me as far as bolstering my comfort level to the point of convincing myself to fly.
Until you posted the links in your previous entry, I had never heard of the missile theory, and here is another article I just came across that's helped convince me further that something more happened that day aside from a spark.When Flight 800 crashed, we were lied to. It happened around the time of a holiday when many people were outside having barbeques & reported seeing a silver streak headed toward the plane just before it exploded. And there just happened to be a Navy missile testing site nearby.
But....yeah....sure, all those witnesses were hallucinating & 230 people died because of "static electricity causing a spark in the plane's gas tank."
When Flight 800 crashed, we were lied to. It happened around the time of a holiday when many people were outside having barbeques & reported seeing a silver streak headed toward the plane just before it exploded. And there just happened to be a Navy missile testing site nearby.
But....yeah....sure, all those witnesses were hallucinating & 230 people died because of "static electricity causing a spark in the plane's gas tank."
Great articles!
Thank you for posting them.
It's scary to think about, and while I hear it all the time, flying is safe and all, those words do nothing for me as far as bolstering my comfort level to the point of convincing myself to fly.
The report did not mention static electricity. The aircraft had been sitting with the air conditioning packs below the fuel tank running that generate heat. The theory was that a wire in the tank arced and set off the fumes in the tankStatic electricity is a very low voltage/amperage spark, Jet fuel is basically kerosene / diesel fuel / heating oil and is not near as volatile as gasoline . Hence not near as sensitive to spark as gasoline, particularly a low current spark such as static.
Never did believe that story/report, never will.
I read it too. It was an interesting work of fiction. The scary thing was that we were on that same flight a few weeks earlier on TWANelson DeMille wrote the book Night Fall which is a fictionalized version of the TWA accident. I remember when it happened, but it seemed to fade from the news rather quickly. When I read the book I found the plot to be very interesting indeed.
Now that is scary, Bowmore.I read it too. It was an interesting work of fiction. The scary thing was that we were on that same flight a few weeks earlier on TWA
The report did not mention static electricity. The aircraft had been sitting with the air conditioning packs below the fuel tank running that generate heat. The theory was that a wire in the tank arced and set off the fumes in the tank
As an aside, static electricity voltage can be up to 20,000 volts.
The first paragraph from the article I posted reads:The report did not mention static electricity. The aircraft had been sitting with the air conditioning packs below the fuel tank running that generate heat. The theory was that a wire in the tank arced and set off the fumes in the tank
As an aside, static electricity voltage can be up to 20,000 volts.
The first sentence from the link:"The report did not mention static electricity. "
Never said it did . win did, and I was commenting on / responding to, that .
As for the max voltage in a static charge .... OK I was wrong, however I'd venture to say .... that a reading that high is indeed rare ??