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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Ummm, tires don't just burst into flames. In extreme circumstances, such as "high energy" braking (fast and heavy emergency braking) they can overheat until the fuse plugs blow from high heat and automatically deflate the tires. The blown tires at times will then ignite, because the airplane is essentially skidding on a deflated tire. This would obviously be a landing accident, not one on takeoff. Anything that could ignite the front tire on takeoff would be major enough (locked front brake) that the crew would have known.
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Cause of the fire can be in question. The result, is what is crucial. The above theory accounts for the fact the plane is "missing"--everyone is looking in the wrong place. If the plane made a straight run in the final direction, it could have reached the position where the reported plane was spotted by the time fuel ran out. Further, the arcs proposed by current theories, eliminated the area in question because they
assumed the plane couldn't have reached that far based on interpretations of incomplete and unverifiable data. This could be the end game...