
Originally Posted by
harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by
leemo
I saw the result of an accident on the M1 a while back, some car was about four foot long after crashing into a truck that looked as though it had jackknifed and ended up lengthwise across the entire carriageway. I wouldn't expect to see much left of a plane that enters a building.
I saw the result of a Porsche 9/11 going through a Security Box (sadly with the officer in it) at about 150Mph. The only thing left bigger than a shoe was the engine block.
Quite expected.
But the car didn't explode in a ball of flames, then keep traveling a hundred metres, punching its way through dozens of concrete and steel columns and six re-enforced concrete walls before concertinaing.
An airliner, basically an aluminium tube, wouldn't have a chance of concertinaing as it (purportedly) went through those walls and a small forest of concrete pillars, leaving a neat pile of bodies/parts exactly where the nose cone was alleged to be.
This s what happens to airliner nose cones on impact, even gentle ones, let alone smashes at 500mph as alleged.
