Why would a CNG tank failure cause the body of the car to be broken into such small pieces? The CNG tank would not be located inside of the car. The CNG tank wouldn't leak some perfectly stoichiometric mixture to cause such a detonation coincidentally while the car was airborne.
Remember, these are your same sources that told you COVID vaccines prevented transmission...
I will try and find the video of one of them. It basically got lifted 6ft off the ground but didn't ignite. The tanks are internal in the trunk. 50ltrs and 3000psi
It actually takes a fair bit of fast explosive energy to completely disintegrate a car down to engine block.
It blew the crash structure of the car apart. There was some serious power involved. See this picture or the side of the car, upside-down. That's the B-Pillar, some of the curved roof, and a bit of the frame of the car. The pressure did not originate outside of the cabin. CNG tanks are not placed inside of the cabin.
Why someone would want to blow up a crossing gate is an important question. I doubt this was the intended target. Maybe, the drugs kicked in a bit early.
It was not a bomb, there weren't explosives in the car. It was a gasoline fireball as the car broke apart. Going fast enough to get airborne for 3-4 seconds before crashing into a bunch of concrete while still airborne is rather good at tearing a car apart.
When I first saw the still photo that IRstuff posted above, I thought someone slipped in a shot from a Steve McQueen movie. Or maybe someone did some, uh, photo-manipulation.
Not yet sure if the driver and passsenger are the owner + wife or if the $300 K USD car was stolen from the casino and the charred remains are the thiefs.
"...when logic, and proportion, have fallen, sloppy dead..." Grace Slick
TNT is a relatively low explosive. And from my personal first hand experience of half a kg of semtex PE blowing up cars in NI paid for by US citizens it doesn't disintegrate a ford chassis like that.
From the video, I estimate the vehicle covered 200 meters in 5 seconds, the last 75 meters being airborne. That's 144 km/hr or 90 mph.
In the following image, the green line indicates the line of sight in the video from the customs building security camera to just past the Twist o' the Mist shop where the vehicle first appears, and the red line represents the path of the Bentley to its destination in the secondary inspection area, which is an open air structure. Distances are estimated using Google Earth.
The vehicle likely launched off the grade differential up to the parking area.
Threading the needle, or more like threading the columns.
The first image shows two columns grazed as the vehicle threaded its way through the open air structure. The first column was contacted by the underside of the vehicle while the second is impacted by the top side. The Google Earth view indicates some of the column layout.
Unfortunately, concrete columns impede the view from the security camera when the vehicle grazes each of the two columns. The final two frames show debris trailing the vehicle.
I'd say one of the columns hidden behind the big cement pillar went through the windshield which ripped the roof and back half of the car from the rest of it. That'd be why the roof, part of the door pillars and the rear suspension is a separate piece apart from the other leftover piece of the body, which appears to have ended up against the cement base of one of those columns in another picture I saw.
