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To: Georgia Girl 2

Sorry but your facts are in error.

The only aircraft to crash into the Empire State Building was a B-25 bomber (a medium twin engine aircraft) that crashed into the 78th floor in July 1945 in fog and bad weather - see Wikipedia “Empire State Building Plane Crash”.

According to the same Wikipedia article there was another air plane crash into a New York City skyscraper on May 20, 1946 when a C-54F (a light twin engine transport) crashed into the 58th floor of 40 Wall Street at night and in bad (foggy) weather.

I suspect the difference in damages was due to the heavier weight of the aircrafts and the difference in building techniques.


7 posted on 06/10/2018 10:15:03 AM PDT by Nip
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To: Nip

and the difference between 600 mph and 200 or less??
And the amount of fuel on board — hijackers deliberately wanted a transcontinental large fuel load plane close to take off.


8 posted on 06/10/2018 10:46:36 AM PDT by BohDaThone
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To: Nip

Ok it was a B25 bomber. It still broke up and large parts fell in the street.

Have you ever seen the nose cone of a commercial airliner that got hit by a goose in flight? It’s trashed. No airliner is going to penetrate a steel and concrete building without the wings and epinage at the very least shearing off and falling down the side of a building.

The planes were supposed to be doing around 525 mph when they hit the building. The VNE (speed the wings come off) on a 767 at 700 ft is 360 knots. Add to that the acrobatics it took to maneuver the jets into position to hit the tower and you have an aircraft that would have broken apart in flight.

Now believe that some dumazz Muslim with a few hours of instruction on how to take off suddenly morphed into Chuck Yeager and got it right on the first try when 12 seasoned airline pilots didn’t even get close in a simulator.

Then not one but both towers perfectly imploded into their own footprint. This is a miracle that rivals the ascension of Jesus into heaven.


11 posted on 06/10/2018 1:07:45 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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