11 Sep
2001
11 Sep
'01
7:17 a.m.
BIG. Really big. And it's not just the size
that's important...the plane
weighs a lot. Imagine the amount of kinetic energy imparted to the building
when those planes hit at 200+ MPH...the force went all the way through each
tower, as we've all horrifingly seen on the news. What's astonishing is not
that they did as much damage as they did, but that the buildings didn't
collapse immediately upon being hit.
If memory serves me, a 737 weighs in at about 200,000lbs empty, add maybe
another 150,000 for people, fuel, cargo and baggage.
g.