It figures, imo, in why the CASB agreed on Arrowair 1285 that it was icing–five voted for iccing against four for onboard disabling incident. On a day when no other aircraft reported icing. Got 250 of our guys killed coming out of Gander. So the Canadians in charge of keeping bombs off aircraft had already had a bad year and fudging the result wasn’t going to bring our guys back.
Plus some clown in DC wanted to seal the records for seventy years.
Lots of ways to look shifty, and if it’s unnecessary….

My opinion is that the agency which spends its time reconstructing aviation accidents has the most informed opinion. This conversation began with someone on 11 October at 1:54 pm insisting that the NTSB’s explanation was ‘not possible’, which was followed by somewhat less categorical remarks by various other characters.

Several episodes are listed in Wikipedia.

What’s your contention, that the NTSB doesn’t know its business or that the NTSB is lying?”

“The NTSB concluded that the most likely source of sufficient voltage to cause ignition was a short from damaged wiring, or within electrical components of the FQIS. As not all components and wiring were recovered, pinpointing the source of the necessary voltage was not possible.”

The NTSB recommendation from this accident was for inert gas to be pumped into nearly empty tanks. This fix was too expensive for existing aircraft. So, it was implemented on new aircraft only. Some wiring inspections were done on existing aircraft, but there was never another such fuel tank explosion that I’m aware of. If there had been ,it could be cause to ground the airplanes as unsafe. The NTSB never said they were certain that they knew what caused the accident. They know their stuff, butt his case mystified most people who know Boeing airliners and the way they are built. A close friend was co-pilot on a 747 that lost its cargo door enroute to Auckland from Honolulu. It resulted in an explosive decompression that tore a hole in the side of the plan and damaged both engines on the starboard side. Some passengers were sucked out of the aircraft during the decompression. That the fuselage stayed in one piece is a testament to the ruggedness of Boeing air frames.

My friend knew the B-747 well. He and I discussed the TWA accident and he believed the NTSB had to find a cause and the fuel tank explosion was the only straw they could grasp.

I have an opinion informed by 38 years experience in aviation. You don’t agree. Then we’ll have to agree to disagree.

The commission of inquiry on the subject was in session for four years.

It was understood right away the plane had been bombed.

The guys who blew up AirIndia eleven years earlier weren’t horsing around for grins. 350 people killed and it took the Canadians twenty years and a boatload of money to figure out who screwed up.

But, as I say, there are two items which got my attention. The optical delusion, if you will of streaks going up…. And the three separate and contradictory explanations for the explosive residue. Clearly, one would have been satisfactory–the one about leftovers from shuttling troops to and from Gulf I five years earlier. Implausible but not refutable.

And one note–how can you tell how accurate it is and you can’t believe any research will prove or disprove it: No 747 was taken out of service to fix the asserted problem. True? Not true? Not necessary?

In a sense, it’s like the dems and vote fraud: Nothing says complete honesty like endless efforts to hide evidence of complete honesty.
The 1993 attempt at the WTC took some organizing.

I’m convinced you’re a twerp. You’re all making categorical statements about an event which requires scores of people months to investigate (actually, years in this case). You expect no counterpoint just why?

It’s a low probability event.

Several episodes are listed in Wikipedia.

What’s your contention, that the NTSB doesn’t know its business or that the NTSB is lying?

Southwest’s problems the past few days were not caused by imposition of a vaccine mandate. They seem to be the consequence of a long series of business decisions in response to the pandemic recovery that didn’t work out as well as planned, with bad weather mixed in for good measure.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/whats-going-on-with-southwest-airlines/