Cessna explodes, doesn't look like gas tank

[kallend 1,683]

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No burn marks, no flames....

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[RevJim 0]

John, isn't that typical of a vapor explosion? Violent, yet rapid due to the fact that the fuel source is exhausted almost immediatly?

Strange, that's for sure.

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[CSpenceFLY 1]

looks like an insurance job to me

[metalslug 31]

Yeah, what RevJim said.
I'm guessing that some Volatile Organic Constituents (VOC) from the fuel leaked from a line or tank into the fuselage... and waited for an open flame or cigarette ember.





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[mr2mk1g 10]

called an atomised particular explosion isn't it?

...Something that would normally only produce a combustion explosion actually detonates... ?

[RevJim 0]

This goes back to the small demonstration in metal shop say, oh, 18 years ago, involving acetylene and oxygen.

Fill a balloon with pure oxygen and hit it with a torch (we did). It pops.

Fill a balloon with pure acetylene and hit it with a torch (we did). It pops with a little flame and a great deal of soot.

Mix oxygen and acetylene about 50%-50% and put a very small amount in a balloon (this was smaller than my fist) and hit it with a torch after making sure you are protected behind some kind of blast wall. We did. The resulting explosion shook the entire vocational education building, and rattled windows on the far side of the main school. It left no trace though, and was gone immediately due to the lack of additional fuel.

If those fuel vapors were concentrated right, that mechanic is lucky to be alive and relatively uninjured.

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