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Old 01-26-2003, 05:33 AM   #80
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Because surely a plane can't dissapear like you say.. so what happened to the plane?
When an aircraft flys into a mountain - it does so with enormous impact. The force tends to go through the aircraft, knocking pieces everywhere. Here you had an aircraft which had a 'cushion' (the building), allowing the fusilage to 'concertina'. Likewise, the aircraft parts become intermingled with the metal girders within the building - and then the whole thing is fused together by the ENORMOUS heat of the fire.

To my mind, it remains a definate possibility that there were no 'large' pieces left - of course I would expect some traces of the aircraft to be found...
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