
Originally Posted by
Djinn
Therefore, I must accept one of two possibilities:
a) The airplane was far-from intact when it reached the Pentagon, and therefore made a hole smaller than it would have made had it been a direct collision.
b) The airplane disappeared without a trace over a highly populated region that included some of the most heavily monitored airspace in the country.
Evidence strongly suggests that the airplane was coasting on the ground well before it reached the Pentagon, tearing up concrete, asphalt, grass, knocking over telephone poles, etc. This would have seriously compromised the hull integrity, and it would have decreased the eventual impact speed.
This would have resulted in a relatively wide-spread wreckage, but a comparatively small impact hole at the Pentagon itself, making scenario a note only plausible, but probable.
If you're game to present an alternate scenario that accounts for the missing plane, I'd like to hear it.
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