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To: I cannot think of a name; FReepaholic

The plane that crashed in PA on 9/11 [sorry, can’t remember the number also disintegrated without a fire

... didn’t it?


160 posted on 09/19/2011 5:27:29 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: BunnySlippers
...The plane that crashed in PA on 9/11 [sorry, can’t remember the number also disintegrated without a fire ... didn’t it?...

I think there was fire.


161 posted on 09/19/2011 5:44:12 PM PDT by FReepaholic (I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok.)
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To: BunnySlippers
The plane that crashed in PA on 9/11 [sorry, can’t remember the number also disintegrated without a fire

... didn’t it?

From the Wikipedia:

At 10:03:11, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the plane crashed into a reclaimed coal strip mine in Stonycreek Township in Somerset County.[59] The National Transportation Safety Board reported that the flight impacted at 563 miles per hour (906 km/h) at a 40-degree nose-down, inverted attitude.[19] The impact left a crater eight to ten feet deep (c. 3 m), and 30 to 50 feet wide (c. 12 m).[60] All 44 people on board died.[61] Many media reports and eyewitness accounts cited the time of the crash at 10:06 or 10:10,[62][63] as did an analysis of seismographic data in the area,[64] but which the 9/11 Commission report states was not definitive.[65] Other media venues and the 9/11 Commission reported the time of impact as 10:03,[66][67] based on when the flight recorders stopped, analysis of radar data, infrared satellite data, and air traffic control transmissions.[23]

Kelly Leverknight was watching news of the attacks when she heard the plane. "I heard the plane going over and I went out the front door and I saw the plane going down. It was headed toward the school, which panicked me, because all three of my kids were there. Then you heard the explosion and felt the blast and saw the fire and smoke."[68] Another witness, Eric Peterson, looked up when he heard the plane, "It was low enough, I thought you could probably count the rivets. You could see more of the roof of the plane than you could the belly. It was on its side. There was a great explosion and you could see the flames. It was a massive, massive explosion. Flames and then smoke and then a massive, massive mushroom cloud."[69] Val McClatchey had been watching footage of the attacks when she heard the plane. She saw it briefly, then heard the impact. The crash knocked out the electricity and phones. McClatchey grabbed her camera and took the only known picture of the smoke cloud from the explosion.[70][71] Ten years after 9/11, a video of the rising smoke cloud filmed by Dave Berkebile (deceased by 2011) from his yard located eight miles away from the crash site was published on YouTube.[72][73]


162 posted on 09/19/2011 5:50:17 PM PDT by cynwoody
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