building. with the fire out and everyone safe, one question remains. what sparked the fire? gasoline vapors are more flammable than liquid gas. fuel vapors are also heavier than air, so they sink. and on such a cool, breezeless night, the fumes stay where they fall and pile up. so conditions are perfect for what happens next. the occupant of the car got in out of his car several times, the car had cloth seats, the subject had hoodie tight clothing on, and we believe that it built up a static charge, and when he got back out of his car for the last time and reached for the nozzle to shut it off, the static charge he had built up in his body discharged and ignited the vapors. the lesson to be learned here is, next time you re at the pump on a cold, breezeless night, make sure to touch something metal before you touch the gas pump, especially if you have cloth seats. it will go a long way to
altitude of that plane at that precise time. listen, we saw twa 800, you may recall, and immediately that was nearly 20 years ago, there was a rush to judgment that this was almost certainly a bomb. turned out not to be a bomb. it was an explosion of fuel vapors in the center fuel tank. we saw pan am 103, completely different course of the investigation, and they found a fragment, a fragment of an explosive device that later caused them to realize in fact, it was a bomb that brought down 103. what s the moral from both stories? don t draw conclusions immediately. it truly takes the entire investigative process to look through all of the evidence and it s ironic that today, it s vladimir putin saying we should not have a rush to judgment on this. but when you have the prime minister of britain coming out and making these comments, it certainly raises the awareness. you asked me about security at sharm el-sheikh. the man who runs sharm el-sheikh airport has been fired, allegedly because
everyone safe, one question remains. what sparked the fire? gasoline vapors are more flammable than liquid gas. fuel vapors are also heavier than air, so they sink. and on such a cool, breezeless night, the fumes stay where they fall and pile up. so conditions are perfect for what happens next. the occupant of the car got in out of his car several times, the car had cloth seats, the subject had hoodie tight clothing on, and we believe that it built up a static charge, and when he got back out of his car for the last time and reached for the nozzle to shut it off, the static charge he had built up in his body discharged and ignited the vapors. the lesson to be learned here is, next time you re at the pump on a cold, breezeless night, make sure to touch something metal before you touch the gas pump, especially if you have cloth seats. it will go a long way to
whatever ignited the fuel of the tank was inside the tank. it didn t come from outside. the cockpit voice recorder recovered one week after the crash may provide evidence. the pilot is heard observing a strange reading on a fuel flow gauge. that s probably an indication of some type of short circuit going on. this airplane was old, it was getting ready to be taken out of service. and there are more clues. one second before the cockpit voice recording ends, there are two dropouts in background noise suggesting a possible arc on the cockpit wiring. investigators believe in this moment high voltage enter the center wing fuel tank igniting the warm fuel vapors. that ignition caused overpressurization of the tank that blew out the forward panel of the tank. you can see the indentation where it s very clear on slam down, there s a very clear mark. from that position we had fractures that went down into