Originally Posted by Bugger
One question I do have is where the hell are the wings, i mean really, wouldn't the wings have made marks on the outside of the building? Only thing that gets me, unless the wings can fold up like some anime cartoon.
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Well there was a big debate today in an IRC channel on Quakenet about this very fact, and several people (including some physicists) said that it's very possible that the plane vapourised, and it's perfectly possible that on impact the wings got bent back as it crashed through the building. I mean the wing wouldn't be the first thing to hit, it would be the engines. Besides if anything were to seriously blow up, it's gonna be the flimsy wings containing aviation fuel.
But apparently (I hate that word but it's all I have) they did tests of reinforced structures to prevent this stuff from happening to nuclear power plants, and they flew fighter planes into it it to test the protection. The fighters were quite literally vapourised due to the sheer speed they were flying at.