Originally Posted by
gulliBell
I don't know if this has been mentioned earlier, but I'm curious why there doesn't seem to be much fuel on the water in the vicinity of the crash site.
With the weather in the area you would expect that were arriving with at least 16,000 lbs of fuel. That would put 8000 in each wing with the center empty. That’s only about 1200 gallons a side. Fuel actually dissipates pretty fast in salt water. Most slicks you see are when fuel is leaking from a small rupture. If the tanks were mangled and all the fuel released at once the fuel would be miles away in a hour and dissipate pretty quickly.