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Fatalities:Flight 1771 43
Flight 93 44
Type of crash:Flight 1771 Suicide
Flight 93 Suicide
Debris fields:Flight 1771 6-8 miles
Flight 93 8 miles
Debris: Flight 1771 Suicide note found(paper)
Flight 93 Hijacker passport found
From the NTSB Report:
Witnesses:Flight 1771 "Plane was intact"
Flight 93 "Plane was intact"
Witnesses:Flight 1771 Plane was "nose down"
Flight 93 Plane was "nose down"
From the CVR Report:
Flight 1771 Scuffle in the cockpit
Flight 93 Scuffle in the cockpit
Photos of body parts
made public: Flight 1771 0
Flight 93 0
Release reports of
matching serial numbers:Flight 1771 0
Flight 93 0
Crater with debris? Flight 1771 yes
Flight 93 yes
Debris found in trees? Flight 1771 yes
Flight 93 yes
Witnesses of Debris:
Flight 1771:
Bill Wammock -“nothing that resembled an airliner... we went on for hours, before we heard the news reports of a missing airliner, believing that we were dealing with a small airplane full of newspapers that had crashed. We saw no pieces of the aircraft that were larger than, maybe, a human hand. It did not look like a passenger aircraft.”
Flight 93:
Ernie Stull- Mayor of Shanksville-"They just found the two turbines because, of course, they're heavier and more massive than everything else. But there was almost nothing left of the actual airplane. You can still find plate-sized parts out there. And Neville from the farm over there found an aluminum part from the airplane's outside shell behind his barn that must've been about 8 by 10 or even 8 by 12 feet."
Were their differences? Sure!
Flight 1771 was a BAe 146, Flight 93 was a larger 757.
Maximum take off weight for the BAe 146 is 93,035 lb
Maximum take off weight for the 757 is 255,000 lbs.
The speeds of the crash were different as well.
If anyone is interested in determining the kinetic energy difference between both flights, I think that would be pretty cool.
Once again, this thread was to show the similarities of the two high speed crashes.