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LudwigPastorius

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13. I'm just going to say that the NTSB's official hypothesis for the explosion...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Jul 16, 2021, 01:41 PM

Jul 2021

seemed weird to me, given that big airliners had been flying around with near-empty center tanks for almost 40 years with no other similar mid-air explosion ever occurring.

The multiple witnesses who saw something streaking up from the water before the explosion also give me pause.

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