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"The explanation was, when the plane came in, it was coming low. It banked at a 90deg angle -- allegedly from the people, from the struggle in the cockpit.
The right wing hit the ground right there were the impact area is and as that happened, it took the front end...[does cartwheel hand gesture].
The front 1/3 of the plane, including the cockpit, slammed into the ground off of the wing and the front 1/3 broke off and flew up into the trees and there was a fireball behind it and the remaining 2/3'rds went down in the ground." - Wally Miller, interviewed by Dominick DiMaggio (Sept. 2008)
"...Somerset County Coroner Wallace "Wally" Miller... recalled his arrival at the crash site about 20 minutes after the plane plummeted to the earth and described how the aircraft came down at a 45-degree angle. He explained how the cockpit broke off at impact, bouncing into a wooded area of about 60 acres. The resulting fireball scorched about eight acres of trees, he said.
The remainder of the plane burrowed deep into the ground, creating a long, narrow crater."
- Pennsylvania's Ground Zero
Written by Tim Lambert
"According to investigators, the cockpit of the aircraft separated from the plane upon impact and flew into the trees, where it disintegrated."
- On Hallowed Ground
September 9 2002
"In its final moments, it spun 180 degrees, hitting the ground upside down and at a 45-degree angle.
When flight 93 hit the ground, the cockpit and first-class cabin broke off, scattered into millions of fragments that spread and flew like shrapnel into and through the trees 20 metres away.
The rest of the 757 continued its downward passage, the sandy loam closing behind it like the door of a tomb. Eventually these pieces and its human cargo... came to rest against solid rock, 23 metres below the surface."
"I didn't see a single piece of airplane anywhere... Little could be found. Because of the reclaimed strip mine, the ground was softer than other surrounding areas. The plane had pierced the earth like a spoon in a cup of coffee: the spoon forced the coffee back, and then the coffee immediately closed around the spoon as though nothing had troubled the surface. Anything that remained of Flight 93 was buried deep in the ground."
(Lisa Beamer, Let's Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage, July 2002, p. 231)
Originally posted by davidmann
I knew there was a logical explanation. Thanks for clearing this up. Of course this means that we'll find the plane and it's contents in the ground? Is it OK to go there and start digging? I have all sorts of time....
Originally posted by DCDAVECLARKE
reply to post by ATH911
Just the right size for a 757! weres the other one? or should i say pull the other one....
Originally posted by boondock-saint
well I guess we can all go home then
nothing more to see here
move along folks
Originally posted by Nonchalant
"it buried itself"? Have you got any more examples of planes burying themselves like this or just this one?? Im guessing you dont. And if you dont, this story is a lot like the one about the 3 towers collapsing from fire, and in the same vain, would make it A WORLD FIRST.
Originally posted by Quaght
Originally posted by Nonchalant
"it buried itself"? Have you got any more examples of planes burying themselves like this or just this one?? Im guessing you dont. And if you dont, this story is a lot like the one about the 3 towers collapsing from fire, and in the same vain, would make it A WORLD FIRST.
Seems that was a day for world firsts: world's first steel construction building to collapse due to fire (and 2 more on the same day!), world's first building to free fall into its own footprint with no resistance due to fire (again, 2 more on the same day!), and world's first plane to hit the ground and bury itself completely.
/Q
Originally posted by zarlaan
There are a few commercial airline crashes that were nearly entirely buried in the ground on impact.
Originally posted by Icerider
discussed at length, still waiting for other examples
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