good hit on the fuel tank but the question is, were the 12 hostages in the room?
i feel like there is more to the story. believe it or not a fuel tank usually will not explode from a bullet. mythbusters tested all kinds of fuel tanks like the one from the Movie Jaws where the guy shoots the tank and blows up the shark. In real like they could not get the tank to blow up with all kinds of different amma. Even used incendiary rounds and it wouldn't blow. something about the lack of oxygen inside the tank.
not saying the story isn't true, just that there is probably much more to it.
They also did this with stand alone gas tanks and propane tanks. Not a single one would blow up even with a .50 cal sniper rifle. The bullet simply ripped through the tank and out the other side.
the only way they were able to get any of the tanks to blow up were to use a gatling gun which finally created enough sparks and more importantly oxygen inside the tank.
Finding: BUSTED
Explanation: In Hollywood, it seems like all you need to blow a car to smithereens is a gun and a gas tank. A garage-full of flicks depict people destroying automobiles by shooting straight into to the tank, triggering a massive explosion.
But when MythBuster Jamie Hyneman bored into a Cadillac's full gas tank with a barrage of bullets, no such detonation went down. His six slugs simply ripped right through the tank and out the other side of the otherwise intact sedan.
With no flames to be found, Jamie's gas tank target practice busted the cinematic motor myth.
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