Originally posted by baumusc
Where do you get your 3,500 gallon number? A 767 holds 23,980 gallons of fuel. These were cross country flights and they had flown a minimal distance when they hit the WTC buildings. A 757, which hit the Pentagon, holds 11,489 gallons of fuel. I think the estimates of 3,500 gallons of fuel, wherever that is coming from, is low. There would probably be more in the neighborhood of 10,000 - 15,000 gallons of fuel on each 767.
The engines didn't liquify, they found them in the Pentagon structure as illustrated below. The Pentagon case is closed, it was a 757 that hit it and that 757 was flown by Al Qaeda operatives.
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/conspiracy/q0265.shtmlFrom NIST... as well as FEMA... The planes were only partially fueled, because they never fill a plane unless absolutely necessary. It adds weight and would cause more fuel consumption. They both estimate that 10k gallons were on board at impact. The fireball consumed the majority of that fuel leaving only 3.5k gallons. Again... that is from NIST FEMA and all persons who understand that fuel burns and a fireball is the result. That is only the estimate if you look at the external fireball. This doesn't include the magical fireball that traveled DOWN the elevator shafts, filling approximately 1.5 million cubic feet of elevator shafts (Height x width x depth and here is the layout of the elevators
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Trade_Center_Building_Design_with_Floor_and_Elevator_Arrangment.svg) You really never think about the size of these things when you make those claims of fire going down 900 feet, through elevators that don't even go to the lobby.
They found the engines inside the pentagon, even though they made no holes? You don't see the problem? And here is where you posted the claim of the plane turning to liquid
Originally posted by baumusc
This isn't true. You are taking dimensions of a 757 that is on the ground with its landing gear down. The 757 that hit the Pentagon clipped the ground and crashed into the Pentagon afterwards. Once again do you think if this were a vast US government and military conspiracy would they have ever released the video of the crashing jet that hit the building?
"Why wasn't the hole as wide as a 757's 124-ft.-10-in. wingspan? A crashing jet doesn't punch a cartoon-like outline of itself into a reinforced concrete building, says ASCE team member Mete Sozen, a professor of structural engineering at Purdue University. In this case, one wing hit the ground; the other was sheared off by the force of the impact with the Pentagon's load-bearing columns, explains Sozen, who specializes in the behavior of concrete buildings. What was left of the plane flowed into the structure in a state closer to a liquid than a solid mass. "If you expected the entire wing to cut into the building," Sozen tells PM, "it didn't happen."
The tidy hole in Ring C was 12 ft. wide—not 16 ft. ASCE concludes it was made by the jet's landing gear, not by the fuselage." http://goallineblitz.com/game/forum_thread.pl?thread_id=5117136&page=45And as far as liquified parts... that was your source earlier. You post these sources... I tell you they are B.S. and you tell me I am crazy. How are you not realizing that the official story is wrong? Your sources are wrong all of the time! That garbage he descraibes was witnessed by nobody.,.. not seen on camera... and would have resulted in a tumbling object crashing and breaking up the whole way... not busting through a couple of rings of the pentagon!
I WILL POST SOME OF THE OFFICIAL STORY FOR YOU TO DIGEST... tHEY EVEN TELL YOU IN THEIR REPORT THAT WITHOUT CERTAIN UNPROVABLE ASSUMPTIONS, THE BUILDING WOULD NOT HAVE COLLAPSED!