Just think of a rotating steel flay
Just think of a rotating steel flay
and any one of them alone could have been responsible for the accident.You're selectively cut 'n pasting and conflating a number of separate passages, warnings, and risk factors there -
i tend to think an explosive tyre decompression initiated a series of events that resulted in fire entering the passenger cabin.
The danger of a 'hot' tyre is that it begins a journey under-inflated and builds pressure up rapidly that results in an explosion but the heat generated and the consequential fragmentation of the tread were unlikely to cause penetration into the engine compartment or a spontaneous combustion of such a magnitude that it would engulf the passenger cell in seconds in a conflagration overcoming people instantaneously.
I suspect the driver ignored a developing engine fault resulting in catastrophic failure and the ensuing fire fuelled no doubt by the accelerant of petrol or diesel.
it is possible fragments from the exploding tyre ruptured an oil cooling line (Trans or engine) and that oil spraying onto a red hot exhaust manifold caught fire.
If that was the case, there would have also been an ENORMOUS amount of smoke. Was there any report of that happening ?
The few times I have had just a few drops go on a hot exhaust manifold, it was surprising how much smoke was generated.
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