Originally posted by Killtown
Originally posted by talisman
Killtown
The difference between the density of water and a plane is astronomical. What I am saying is very valid. The speed is what this is about. The fact is
the speed of the planes that day was 600 mph when you factor in the weight of the plane it isn't hard to figure out what would happen.
The wingtip would still not slice through, even if the rest of the plane penetrated though.
Since when does the wingtip have to do it? The wing spars in the plane can do it as well, wings are not hollow and can quite easily penetrate that
distance of steel. Also don't forget, the steel was already under compression, when something pushes it in, the weight is no longer holding it
together, it would be working to push it apart, so that combined with the force of the aircraft would be enough to break the facade.
The core structure would have been stronger than the facade and more difficult to penetrate, and only American 11 would have hit it head on, not much
of UA 175 hit the core section, one of the three staircases were still intact throughout the impacted section.