I never tire at the number of ways airlines and airline mfg find to create fuel air explosives
Or (as some meja outlets have called them) the "Poor man's atomic bomb."
IBack in the day there were a couple of really impressive explosions when the Captain rain the planes aircon on the ground during an extend hold at a gate.
Their aircon pack was under a "nearly" empty fuel tank. Aircon got hot, fuel vaporised. No inerting system. Boom. In fact I think that was one (of several) bangs that made fuel inerting systems mandatory on big aircraft.
But "Take off without a working inerting system?" WTF ?
That said if this has never caused a bang that makes it a potential hazard, not one actually seen.
Which would seem to be an improvement.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
