[Kozak]

I personally got to investigate several aircraft accidents while a flight surgeon in the Air Force. In one an F-4 impacted at high speed 600+knots into a scrub pine forest on a bombing range in Florida. The aircraft impacted at a shallow angle going through the trees like they were a cheese grater. There wasn't a SINGLE piece of the aircraft left bigger then a couple of square inches except for one of the the 20mm cannon barrels. If you didn't KNOW it was a plane, you would have been damn hard pressed to identify it as such unless you were an expert.

This entire "controversy" is so nauseating I can't stand it. It doesn't matter that we have the flight track of the aircraft, that we have eye witnesses, that we have survivors, that we have rescue personnel, and photo's clearly showing aircraft wreckage, the PIN HEADS keep at it.

[TomB]

This entire "controversy" is so nauseating I can't stand it.

Frustrating, isn't it?

Although it is probably instructive to note that most of the usual suspects who jump on every conspiracy theory have, up to now, avoided this topic.

Looking at the picture in post 32 (and, ahem Teach, post 53), you can see very well just how thin the skin of an modern jetliner really is. Imagine that hitting a highly reinforced concrete building at over 300 mph and it isn't hard to imagine not much of it remaining intact.