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Old 03-29-2006, 05:24 PM  
Rochard
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Originally Posted by SuckOnThis
It was not tens of thousands of gallons of fuel. A 767 fuel capacity is a little under 24,000 gallons, and they are not normally fueled to capacity on intercontinental flights. Most of the fuel was burned off in the explosion, and the fuel that wasnt would have burned itself off quickly.

If burning jet fuel was capable of melting metal why in the hell doesnt it burn the inner components of a jet engine?
Oh Christ. I suck at math, but clearly you have no idea of what the numbers really represent.

Twenty four thousand gallons is in fact "tens of thousands" of gallons.

This all makes perfect sense to me now. There are people on GFY saying they are having horrible ratios. Chances are this is because they can't do third grade math.
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