If I recall eye-witness descriptions correctly; the 757 approached the Pentagon at an extremely high rate of speed, but the wings were at a full 90 degrees to the horizontal. It also was reported to be at an angle off the ground at 30 or more degrees. That would explain the extremely small 'impact' area. And of course, they don't call them "Tin Cans" for nothing. While these things are big, and not meant for war; as the video of 767s flying into the comparatively fragile (vs. the Pentagon) WTC showed, they disintegrate rather quickly. Matthew ____________________________________________ Matthew Montano -- tel: 604.841.6393, pager mailto:6048416393@msg.clearnet.com > -----Original Message----- > From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On > Behalf Of Gerard M Foley > Sent: March 9, 2002 3:49 PM > To: AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU > Subject: Re: But where's the Boeing??? > > > Sorry to be late, but I was hospitalized for a while. > > One of the aerial (satellite?) views in the cited URL seems > to show two heavily damaged areas at the ends of the straight > section of the building, extending right into the interior > courtyards. Little damage appears (in this view) inside the > outer wall in the middle of the damaged section of the building. > > It looks to me that at least one of the early exterior views > (with a fire truck spraying water) shows a lot of material > that might be the remains of an aircraft fuselage, along a > straight outer wall of the building.. > > Is it conceivable that the two engines penetrated at the ends > of the damaged section and most of the rest of the aircraft > was consumed in the central fire? > > Perhaps not. The distance between the two blackened sections > in the aerial view is probably much too great to represent > damage by the two engines of a single 757. > > Is it certain that the plane did not strike first some > distance from the > building? I don't know anything about conditions along the > approach path. > Could it have hit the building in several pieces, rather than > intact, after a bounce? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jan Broe" <janbroe@post8.tele.dk> > To: <AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 8:11 PM > Subject: But where's the Boeing??? > > > > Hi all, > > > > hope I'm not ripping up too many old wounds here, but a > colleague just > sent= > > me this link, leading to a site that make X-Files look like fairy > > tales > in= > > comparison. > > Here's the URL: > > http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm > > > > Definately an interesting theory. Any comments, anyone? > > > > I don"t believe it was a ground attack, with the missing > plane sequestered somewhere. > > With heavy heart, > > Gerry K8EF > http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley/ http://www.geocities.com/gerryf.geo/eclipseindex.html http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html