Figure 5. Origination location of the pipeline crack from corrosion on the piping outside, per the NTSB.
(Image by NTSB) Details DMCA
Communications
The following email was sent to the NTSB and PHMSA upon publication of this Op Ed.
NTSB Pipeline Explosion Coverups Threaten Our Lives
Please see the referenced Op Ed, which summarizes current research into flawed NTSB pipeline explosion investigations ("Lincoln County, Kentucky Gas Pipeline Explosion Coverup by the NTSB").
I perform this research without pay, since I cannot receive research funding from those who create the safety hazard in the first place.
Comments are welcome.
Appendix A - Some Complicated Science
This appendix is highly technical and is provided in my forthcoming, 2026, ASME book, titled "The Fluid Transient Disaster, Water Hammers and Gas Hammers". This engineering discussion is provided here as an addendum, since it cannot yet be found elsewhere in it's entirety. Accordingly, this technical discussion supports this Op Ed but is not essential to understand the NTSB coverup, which is the crux of this Op Ed. This ASME book provides far more technical proof of the following excerpted information to present a comprehensive explanation of the physics of pipeline explosions that never before been published.
'Fundamental physics of gas pipeline explosion mechanisms
Figure 6 depicts a gas pipeline explosion sequence in a series of steps: a. through l. described as follows. In this figure, the drip leg where the explosion ignites is near the crack, but the drip leg explosion can be located elsewhere in the piping system where air accumulates at a system low point. An important explosion sequence has been identified.
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
