Wheres the Boeing?

[GtoRA2]

I thought is was a small comuter plane that went into the Pentigon, with less then 30 people on board?

and didnt they have pics of its tail sticking out of the Pentigon?

[Mickey1992]

http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/1003/news_1-1.html

"That casualties were not much higher is attributed primarily to the fact that the portion of the building hit, the so-called "Wedge One," had been recently renovated. Contrary to initial reports, the reason for the low casualty rates was not that the offices were still vacant."

..."What saved so many lives, indisputably, is the structural stiffening Wedge One had undergone as part of a much needed, nearly completed, upgrade. "

"The exterior walls had been reinforced with steel beams and columns, bolted where they met at each floor. Some of these reinforced walls very near the point of impact remained in place for a half hour before collapsing, allowing uncounted hundreds to escape. "Had we not undertaken this effort," said Evey at a press briefing on September 15, "this could have been much, much worse."

[Tac]

a high speed object does not cause "the" damage until it slows down by transmitting its own KE to the object. Until then it just penetrates.

In the case of a plane hitting, say, a building, it would penetrate and blow up *just* on the inside, past the penetration point. Just like you see happening in the towers. The pentagon would be no different. After all, those walls were designed to resist far more weight than the plane.. they held up a whole building!.

[indian]

All it takes is a look at other crashes planes turn into very small pieces on impact.

And having worked on that perticular airplane myself and knowing that we are missing a 757. That whole web site is a bunch of bull toejam. Fuel will burn not nessecarily explode. Wings are very thin thats why they dont show up they disintigrated. I also agree having flown the 757 simulater, 250 is nowhere near landing speed way to high. Do a search for the United 737 that crashed in Colorado, Or the US Airways 737 that crashed in PA not much left of them but a big hole in the ground.

[Toad]

Rough outline for 757 fuel domestic US off the top of my head:

About 7000 pounds per scheduled hour of flight, add about 5-10,000 more for your reserve (5k clear/no alternate, 10k alternate for weather, arrival traffic, etc.)

Won't be exact, but it'll be close enough for "what-ifs" like this discussion.

[hblair]

CNN is showing still photos of the plane going into the pentagon right now, taken from a parking lot security camera.

But,

But,


Surely Pierre Sallinger can explain all this. Possibly the navy missile that got TWA flight 800 was responsible for this. I'm sure Area 51 is involved, or Aliens. Or Elvis. Or Jack Ruby, gotta be one of them...

[Sikboy]

Obvious to me that the Elders of Zion (In league with the Illuminati) must have been reading this thread, and make some CG video to placate the masses. We have to be carefull what we say out here, the walls have ears, the phones are tapped... what? Who are you? Hey, that's my keyboar........

[Hortlund]

I believe there is a lesson to be learned here.

When someone steals your keyboard, finish your sentence instead of typing lots of dots like this ....

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Hortlund
I believe there is a lesson to be learned here.

When someone steals your keyboard, finish your sentence instead of typing lots of dots like this ....

Hey, who am I to question the ways of the vast government conspiracy?

-Sikboy

[hblair]

They've gotten sikboy!!!

[Sikboy]

Why don't You like to pass the time with a game of solitair?

-Sikboy

[K West]

"Would You like to pass the time with a little solitair? "

My time, is your time....

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[Sandman]

Entertaining site... stupid, but entertaining.

FWIW, at work we had a tactical aircraft crash a few years ago. It impacted an embankment and then went over the top of the building. There weren't many pieces larger than a bread box. It's perfectly reasonable to expect the pentagon crash aircraft to break up into nothing but little pieces.

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
FWIW, at work we had a tactical aircraft crash a few years ago. It impacted an embankment and then went over the top of the building. There weren't many pieces larger than a bread box. It's perfectly reasonable to expect the pentagon crash aircraft to break up into nothing but little pieces.

Was it a German Tornado?

-Sikboy

[Sandman]

As a matter of fact, it was.