At 10:07 PM 2/23/99 -0800, spike wrote:
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<excerpt>outflow near some sparking kapton wire, and BOOM. Moreover, since the tank was mostly empty,
its volume was not entirely a vapor version of the fuel. It was air filled with fuel fumes.
It is an ideally explosive setup. Ideal mixing, minimum swirl, etc.
</excerpt>Wow thanks Mike! Finally an explanation that makes some sense. Altho
perhaps not entirely comforting to a flequent fryer. {8-[ So I really did
misunderstand the report, which I thought was saying the explosion somehow
happened inside the tank, not due to ignition outside. This explanation
sounds like fuel fumes leaking out, then igniting. OK, now we have
beaten *that* subject thoroughly to death... {8^D
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IAN: It's not true that the NTSB
says there was an ignition external
to the tank.