Warbird Information Exchange

I jsut saw that a judge recently ordered all of the records of Flight 800 be released to a group of pilots that re trying to show that it was not a center fuel tank explosion that brought the aircraft down. I am usually not one for theories like this, but this time, I am all in. I was not at first, but when I started hearing all of the eye witnesses complaining about how their accounts had been altered by the NTSB, I listened up. I was just wondering what you guys all thought. I am not saying what it was, but I think it was not a center fuel tank explosion.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

Mustang, briefly which is the 800 accident? Is it the one that happened just off the East Coast outbound? My money is on the NTSB. Why would they want to falsify testimony or evidence? I saw a tv show on some accident and it seemed clear from reassembling the debris that the explosion had come out from the area of the tank. Conspiricy theories can get far from reality. Many people don't believe we went to the moon. A big point they seem to miss is that our space flights were also tracked by the Russians etc. I saw the show that doubts the plane hit the Pentagon. I talks about them not finding a big engine in the debris. Well, we saw the planes hit the Trade Center and no one found a big engine. Mostly if hijacked airliner did not hit the Pentagon, where is it? Did it land at area 51? Finally what is the theory of the pilots, what point are they trying to prove?

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

Bill I usaully don't go with these theories, but this one I do. Eye witnesses have all said the same t hing, that what the NTSB used from the report was not what they said they saw. That alone gives me enough to want to dig deeper. By the way one piece of the aircraft was large enough to be picked up on radar as it fell, and it feel out side the area that was designated as the "spark zone" or area that would support wreckage from a fuel tank explosion. Also Evergreen did a test in the desert and had a center fuel tank from a 747 to the same conditions that the Flight 800 fuel tank was at, and guess what? No explosion! They had the same fuel load in it, same temp, but tried to spark it to blow up, and nothing. I am going to have to see what the pilots come up with, but I am not buying the fuel tank story for now.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

Regardless of whether anyone buys this particular story, the general public is probably safer because of it. There were AD notes that came out to fix this mysterious spark issue and all new airliners have fuel system changes incorporated. There was also a 737 that blew up on a ramp in Florida I believe due to a similar issue.

If the spark issue is even a real factor.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager