Not much to an airplane

"...any one who serves especially in a combat zone dealing with heavy dangerous equipment or people whether they are actually Military or Civilian helpers put their lives at risk and I tip my hat to all of them." -Nevergiveup

Amen!

The thread is maybe cold and long, but I wanted to remark... and so I will.

Hard as that was to watch personally, I was clinically intrigued by the six or eight frames showing the pancaking of the plane before the explosion. After 9/11, what happens upon impact to those fragile little tubes was much discussed, and although I understood the physics of collapse and disintegration, this vid was a demonstration of how, under the right force, there's not much left.