Trevor Collins

He supports this theory because he references a few other things that I haven't mentioned yet.

A few witnesses say they heard sonic booms or multiple sonic booms sometime around the time of the crash.

Now, of course, this plane, I don't think at any point crossed the sound barrier, wasn't going nearly fast enough to create a sonic boom.

It could have been a misidentified explosion sound.

But in his mind, that could have been this meteoroid hitting the atmosphere and creating these these sonic booms.

so he also references that according to the fbi report there was an estimated 200 holes in the fuselage this davis believes were indicative of metal being cut by fragments of the belide now ultimately as i kind of indicated scientists dismissed this theory because the probability of this happening you know it cutting through the atmosphere and flying directly into this plane specifically at the exact moment is extremely low

Though extremely low as it may be, it's not uncommon for a belide to enter the atmosphere and explode in a bright flash of light.

But all of this now kind of leads us to the NTSB consensus.

Because after a thorough investigation, the NTSB determined that the cause of the accident was an explosion in the center wing fuel tank, I believe that's called the CWT, from ignition of the flammable fuel and air vapors in that tank.

However, they could not state the source of the ignition with certainty, though there is an understanding.

I'll give you my kind of layman's understanding of all of the things that went down and one of the most prominent ignition sources.

This is in the wing?

So it's not in the wing, but it is called a center wing fuel tank because it's in the belly of the plane between the two wings.

Got it.

That's where it is.

Okay.

underneath.

Yeah.

It might surprise you to find out though, that the wings of most commercial airlines are in fact fuel tanks.

And so this aircraft, the center wing fuel tank was essentially empty for this flight.