🚀 go-pugleaf

"RT" <R.Thomas@CQU.Edu.Au> wrote in message news:39A1A9B2.1D54@CQU.Edu.Au...
> Jim Knoyle wrote:
> > The theory
> > seems to be that
> > said FQI harness, at some point external to the tank, was abraded and
> > contacted a higher
> > voltage. Also, there is the thought that some type of induced voltage
spike
> > was the cause.
> >
> > Actually the diagram #30 in the NTSB exhibit suggests to me that the
> > punctures on the
> > underside of the #3 main tank at the wing root were caused by an
improperly
> > installed
> > #3 hot section cowling coming adrift causing the long streak of flaming
> > jet-A and the
> > eventual explosion of the CWT. As I've stated before, this all takes
place
> > in the area
> > about the size of a coffee table. Inside this small area we have the
> > punctures indicated on
> > the diagram, a *hot* bleed air duct from the right wing, the feeder
> > conductors from the
> > APU right generator, and the #3 air conditioning pack and not
> > insignificantly the location
> > where the CWT explosion originated!!!
>
> Youch!  Was this scenario considered during the investigation?  If so,
> were enough bits recovered to disprove it?

I don't know, guess we'll learn tomorrow. I had the theory posted on a web
page
for several months in addition to contacting congress reps. etc. but the
only feedback
I recall was from know-nothing idiots like Tarver. Oh, yes, Stan Clark at
one time
considered it his *favorite* but I consider that to be a "kiss of death."

I have personal reasons for not pursuing the issue and will leave it up to
the NTSB.
If the evidence is there, so be it, but if not that's the way it is.

After assisting in the replacement of a hydraulic motor/pump on a certain
DC-10
only to hear of it cartwheeling in a week later for a completely unrelated
hydraulic
problem, I can tell you first hand what it is like to sweat bullets. I can
only imagine
what the fellows that tried to repair that inoperative #3 reverser are
feeling.

If you have ever hung JT9D cowlings, you would understand.

JK