Fuel Explosion News Today

A massive explosion at a petrol station in Freetown, Sierra Leone has killed at least 92 people, burning people in cars and streets nearby.

Doubt as investigators are looking into a fuel explosion or an overheeded lithium battery. earlier in the week pentagon officials say they detected a sudden and unexpected heat flash, seconds before the plane crashed. russia announcing friday it was suspending flights to egypt, today saying they had flown some 11,000 tourist out from sharm el sheikh and back to russia. while this is a joint russian and egyptian investigation, "new york times" is reporting the fbi is also helps with forensic anal...

Could have been an explosion that was triggered by several things. a metal break-up of the plane, a fuel explosion, even suggesting that it may have been batteries that were stored inside the cargo of that plane. another important development that has happened in terms of that investigation, the closed-circuit television footage of the airport has been analyzed by egyptian security officials. they say there was no suspicious behavior while the plane was on the tarmac, there was no suspicion beha...

Doubt as investigators are looking into a fuel explosion or an overheeded lithium battery. earlier in the week pentagon officials say they detected a sudden and unexpected heat flash, seconds before the plane crashed. russia announcing friday it was suspending flights to egypt, today saying they had flown some 11,000 tourist out from sharm el sheikh and back to russia. while this is a joint russian and egyptian investigation, "new york times" is reporting the fbi is also helps with forensic anal...

U.s. and british officials putting into high likelihood a bomb brought down that plane. senator john mccain joins me now. i know this is not conclusive evidence and u.s. intelligence is being more cautious than the brits right now but you have the prime minister standing next to the egyptian leader and calling putin today and saying this is a high likelihood. that certainly indicates they have heard something. >> i think they heard something. just on the face of it, planes made by airbus do not ...

>> i have never seen an aircraft shout down by a missile, i have to say -- >> thank goodness for that. >> but what i did see was something entirely different than the holes that you see here. they were tight state general. they sliced through these metal. these are not like that. this is puncture of objects going through that aluminum and pushing the aluminum back as it goes through. so the obama other thing i could think of, from the outside that would have caused anything similar, would be the...

>> what could have happened, you dont need to blow the aircraft out of the sky. for it to fall out of the sky. this missile only had to hit the aircraft. >> as peter -- >> a wing, a tail plane. >> as peter gould said, when an aircraft is hit like this, it in his words unzips and falls apart. >> all the fasteners around it start to fall apart. so its essentially the plane could have come out of the air in one piece. but extremely distressed. because obviously it has been hit by a missile. and wha...

Even gliding down you are going to be into the ground. >> the key is ten or 12 minutes you have plenty of time to send a signal. >> that is the problem. pilots are trained to go immediately to do two things. one is fly the airplane in an emergency and the other is to communicate. now, no transmissions came out of that aircraft, none. no pilot made a transmission. you are trained to call for assistance. you can then communicate with a company and even the manufacturer. nothing and that implies to...

Dissent. so they were at 3500 feet, do the math. in ten or 12 minutes, clyde glideing down, you will be into the ground. >> in ten or 12 minutes, you have plenty of time to send a signal. >> thats the problem. pilots are trained instinctively do two things, drive a plane in normal or mjs the other is to communicate. now no transmissions came out of that aircraft. none. no pilot made a transmission. you are trained to call for assistance. you can communicate with the company, even with the manufa...

Like a jigsaw puzzle. the conclusion, a wiring issue sparked an explosion near an empty fuel tank but tom, working on his ph.d. in physics is unconvinced. he spent the last 17 years interviewing witnesses and whistle blowers, saying the government is lying about the crash. >> i think whats most important is to open this investigation again, get an honest look at it from an unbiased group of investigators. >> i saw the beginning of a fuel explosion, petrochemical explosion, and that was the big f...