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MATTINGLY: From our distant vantage point on September 11th, all that seemed to remain from United flight 93 was a shallow, charred pit. What we didn't know was, according to county officials at the scene, the cockpit and approximately a third of the airplane bounced off the ground and shattered, pieces scattering through the burning treeline across a 50-acre area. The rest collapsed on top of itself, buried into the burning pit.
WALLACE MILLER, SOMERSET COUNTRY CORONER: I had never actually witnessed an aircraft disaster prior to this. But what I've seen on TV, you see some of the big pieces of fuselage or engine, or something like that, but there was nothing like that. I've been told that it was due to the speed of the aircraft.
MATTINGLY: At an estimated 500 miles per hour on impact, the devastation was complete, compounding the delicate job of recovering remains of the passengers and crew.
MILLER: It was a really a very unusual site. You almost would've thought the passengers had been dropped off somewhere.
MATTINGLY: Partial remains of just 12 people could be identified from fingerprints and dental records. Identifying the rest on board depended on DNA testing on the few remains not incinerated in the crash or contaminated by jet fuel or flame retardant.
MILLER: Even by the standard model of an airplane crash, there was very little, even by those standards.
MATTINGLY: But it was enough to eventually identify everyone onboard. Remains of the passengers and crew began going back to the families shortly before Christmas, Coroner Miller sharing with them one inescapable conclusion.
MILLER: For all intents and purposes, the final resting place of their loved ones was at that particular site where the crash occurred.
MATTINGLY: Today, it's almost impossible to tell there was a crash here, the impact pit filled in, the area covered with topsoil and grass, surrounded by a fence, trees burned by the fireball removed. And the task begun on September 11th still incomplete. MILLER: We're going to go through here one more time here in the spring, and hopefully that'll be -- at some point, we have to say, we did the best we could.
End of video tape
Newsmaker: Coroner's quiet unflappability helps him take charge of Somerset tragedy
Monday, October 15, 2001
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After the crash he swore in a cadre of deputies -- helpers such as hospital workers and fellow funeral directors -- but Miller chose largely to go it alone.
Even in the middle of it all, where trees were scorched and the Boeing 757's fuselage disintegrated in a crater that collapsed on itself to leave a gouge maybe 14 feet across, the destruction was so complete that it was hard to imagine what happened.
"It was as if the plane had stopped and let the passengers off before it crashed," Miller said.
a reply to: Salander
Again, provide actual quotes from first responders and site crews where individuals said no jet crashed at shanksville, no wreckage at shanksville, or there was no human remains. You have been part of threads were people have posted the effects of high speed aircraft crashes.
Sorry this is morbid....
But the results of this P-51 crash results in no recognizable human body and no recognizable P-51, yet it is clear the aircraft crashed on the runway. Is this a conspiracy?
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originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Salander
Do you post rants just to push facts in a thread into the background?
not like that's under his control. If no one else is in the thread when you're answering posts it can happen .
originally posted by: Nothin
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Salander
Do you post rants just to push facts in a thread into the background?
Says the guy who just posted 6 posts in a row...
originally posted by: InhaleExhale
a reply to: Salander
Why can that not be proved?
Why can what not be proved?
Why was it not visible on video tapes or still photos?
Context?
Are you asking about this ........"Flight 93 headed straight for the ground. Crashed head first. "?
originally posted by: Salander
originally posted by: InhaleExhale
a reply to: Salander
Why can that not be proved?
Why can what not be proved?
Why was it not visible on video tapes or still photos?
Context?
Are you asking about this ........"Flight 93 headed straight for the ground. Crashed head first. "?
That UA93 had crashed in that field.
Why could nobody find it, walking in that field? Why was that wrecked airliner invisible to cameras?
Ask Occam that question and he would say because there WAS NO AIRLINER in that field that day. I do somewhat understand how sleight-of-hand works, but you can't say an airliner crashed somewhere if the airplane is invisible.