Navy Sailor: The US Navy Shot Down TWA 800: Naval Servicemen Threatened, Ordered To Delete Records
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I worked at Boeing too. I was QA in the Systems Instillation Division on the Boeing 777 assembly line in Everette, WA in from 1997 through1999 then moved to New Hampshire. I ran the QA department where they dropped the empty front and aft sections of the plane shells into our area. The install team installed everything into the plane shell then my QA team inspected each item after it was installed.
And you' re right about the fuel tank. I was a P3 Orion flight engineer in the US Navy for over 20 years. I know airplanes. No way does a fuel tank explode on it's own simply because there's not enough oxygen in the wing tanks to allow for ignition, even if there was an massive electrical spark inside the tank. Without oxygen there is no fire. Period.
Good posts guys, Im in Aviation as well.
1: Seen a few JET A ignitions after incident, but never explosion. What are the chances? (Serious question)
2: Regarding the 777 , is it true the Angle of attack system was not redundant in the aircraft?
Yes, and vulnerable to icing.
But it is "Everett". Kinda just a tad odd that you mispelled it.
Seemed you mised it. Look closer at my reply again.
I haven't lived in that State since 1999. So it's not like I go to Everett daily and see the city limit sign regularly or anything like that. Hope that clears it up.
ok I get it! You have no sense of humor. Fine by me.
Probably because I'm an engineer and think quite literally most of the time. It gets me into trouble all the time. LOL
wow that sounds familiar. Ok I'll tell you. I misspelled "mispelled". On purpose. My literally thinking also gets me in so much trouble, so I can sympathize. Hard to be around party people! A good book is my best friend. And not a romance novel or much fiction. God's Bankers is my current. Looks like it's going to be good. You might want to check it out. Being female also is a negative, I'm just a cold bitch to most people. Anyway, I apologize for teasing you.
I too worked at Boeing, Everett, managing systems installation and fuel tank closure on all wide bodies for 40 years, 747’s at that time. I was there during investigation. Official results were that explosion was caused by spark from FQS (fuel quantity indicating system). Most of us called bs on the cause as voltage and amperage was too low. Tank is ambient atmospheric vented thru upper panel vent system as fuel is burned. Fuel is burned from center tank first to facilitate less weight on gear in event of emergency landing. All of us on team thought it was some kind of external ordinance. We made big changes to fuel tanks and eventually added nitrogen purge to displace air. It seemed a coverup to most of us, but we were only manufacturing and built the things as directed. That’s the Everett side of story.
Anyone have any idea if this was on purpose or was it just a terrible accident?
After 26 years, my memory is rusty, but I recall a prominent investigative analysis that supported the mistaken missile shot hypothesis. An external overpressure (as from a missile warhead) would have explained the otherwise odd indications of rapid speed and altitude change. There was also eyewitness testimony to the existence of a missile engagement that was suppressed.
8 years earlier, the Navy shot down Iran Air 655, mistakenly identifying it as a hostile incoming, so there was precedent.
It was a flat-out error. The shipboard radar conflated the returns from a crossing plane with the inlet fan signatures of the Airbus and made a combined (wrong) identification. Leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.
Odd how it was fuel tank, but they kept all the new passenger ID and other “rules”.