reply to post by Badgered1
The wings did hit the building, but were smashed into tiny pieces (and, by some accounts 'mixed themselves with cement'), which then aligned
themselves with the fuselage and entered the building?
Yes the wings did hit the building, and yes quite a bit of the wings became a bunch of aluminum confetti for lack of better words. Did pieces end up
embedded in the limestone (not concrete) facade? Yes. However your "aligned themselves with the fuselage and entered the building" is
inaccurate.
The hole in the building was made by the nose/fuselage which had a higher velocity and density to the wing-mounted engines (which evaporated and
folded back along the body) which accounts for the engines leaving no impact holes
Another inaccurate statement, especially about the "no impact holes". There is a lot of "empty" space in a jet engine, and upon hitting a
limestone wall, the majority of the engine will fragment, leaving itty bitty pieces of itself all over. Now, will fuel lines and other tubing survive
an impact to drag parts of the engine along with it? Its entirely possible, however to say that it simply folded back along the body is an extreme
simplification.
The composition of the wall at the impact points for the engines was different to the composition of the wall where the nose hit?
Nope. Unless you are referring to the fact that the underlying brick part of the exterior wall did not have all the mortar that it should of...
The entire tail section also folded up and slipped into the hole made by the nose? - (sorry, this is off topic...)
Again, inaccurate. The tail smashed against the exterior wall and again, hydraulic and electrical connections would have dragged pieces of the tail
along with the fuselage.
The impact areas where the wings hit and disintegrated and folded into the body and retained their fuel had glass windows that would withstand this
kind of impact velocity and stay intact?
Okay, the first half of the statement is inaccurate. The part of the "glass windows that would withstand impact", is kind of accurate. That being
that the blast resistant windows around the impact area, a lot of them stayed fairly intact, the windows in the impact area did not.
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