[V8] Electricity and Fluids WAS RE: If you think Audi parts are expensive....

[Enzeder]

Probably not the fuel pump:
http://www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/2000/aar0003.htm
I assume you're thinking of TWA 800...


At 07:54 PM 5/16/2007, you wrote:


>That is how all fuel pumps (high pressure anyway) work to this day.
>Without oxygen, there can be no ignition.
>It seems crazy - and when I
>also took apart a fuel pump, I could not believe my eyes but there it was.
>Blue sparks a blazing off the brushes.
>
>btw, an airliner crashed
>off the east coast maybe 10 years ago. I seem to remember the cause being
>a fuel pump in a tank that was "too empty" meaning too much
>oxygen in it.
>Anyone remember the real facts on that one?
>
>Dave