| superchunk said: The only part that I really question is the Pentagon. A 747 just would've made a bigger mess. |
The plane blew up when it hit. The parts were scattered everywhere, meaning there was no real plane found, but I believe people were photographed next to the tail wing, if I remember correctly. If you're confused about why the Pentagon wasn't a bigger mess, it was the way it was built. It's all concrete and steel, low to the ground. So while the Twin Towers were built out of the same stuff, it was all on top of each other, and when the steel lost half of it's strength (since it does at the temperature plane fuel burns) the weight above became too much, making it collapse. The reason it looked like a bomb was because that's what happens when over a ton of concrete falls onto the floor. Rubble shoots out.
*Superchunk* I was merely addressing more rumors around the 9/11 attacks as well as answering your question.
