<p>According to <a href=/articles/view/159575/>BP’s analysis</a>, several factors, including the pressures observed during the top kill attempt—initially dropping, then flat-lining—made it plausible that the rupture disks in the 16” casing had collapsed inward during the initial blowout.<sup>160</sup> If the blowout had resulted in <a href=/articles/view/159494/>flow of