that mirror is a load of crap!!! the engine is the easiest to explain... violent movements during the takeover took the plane OUTSIDE of the DESIGN ENVELOPE and one of the engines snapped off.
a four engine plane can fly a long time on three engines, any fighter pilot worth his salt would put a load of 20mm through the cockpit windows and put it down right then and there!!! anything else found on the ground is nothing more than the plane shedding lost skin etc. and could be smoking/on fire from the engine being ripped off the plane.
the engine is the easiest to explain... violent movements during the takeover took the plane OUTSIDE of the DESIGN ENVELOPE and one of the engines snapped off. I fully admit that your theory and all the alternate theories posted on this thread by all the other aerospace engineering PhD's make at least as much sense as flying the vertical stabilizer off transcontinental jet at 240 knots over Jamaica Bay or the 50 gallons of Jet A in a 13,000 gallon tank that spontaneously exploded off Long Island.
a four engine plane can fly a long time on three engines, any fighter pilot worth his salt would put a load of 20mm through the cockpit windows and put it down right then and there!!!
And from post #40:
In point of fact, we actually failed to shoot it down before it crashed and the defense dept. got criticized for that as well.
Those are some radically different excuses. You Kool-Aide drinkers ought to at least get your stories straight!