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Originally Posted by willravel
Wow. Maybe I should address this before people make further mistakes.
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So your'e saying the "should" and "actual" pictures are exactly the same diminsionally. I didn't even point out the small fact that the contrast was spiked on the doctored photo.
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A Boeing 757-200 is about 44' tall with it's landing gear down, and 40' tall at the tail with it's landing gear up (I don't know if the plane supposedly had it's landing gear up or down, I'll assume up for the sake of this).
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It doesn't matter. The plane was off the ground. If the plane had hit the ground with the gear down, it would have collapsed. Planes that heavy do not do well when they try to land on anything but heavilly reinforced concrete.
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Using the yellow line as a measurement of 77' at the entry point, one can start to get perspective on the picture. Allowing for an entry of about 60 degrees from the wall (acording to the info the FBI released), the tail is about 25' above it's supposed entry point. Now we have perspective on the plane's distance from the ground. 25' + 40' is 65', which is only 12' shorter than the roofline. The problem is that the tail is not 12' from the roofline, it is closer to 40' from the ground and 37' from the roofline.
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You're making several assumptions which do not make sense.
The most glaring is the part about the tail. You're assuming the airplane remained solid and kept its shape throughout the entire crash. Airplanes look solid but they're really not. They're made out of aluminum - their skin is very THIN aluminum, to save weight. They're flying soda cans. The instant that plane's nose hit the reinforced concrete wall of the pentagon the entire plane started to crumple. By the time the tail got to the wall, who knows what position it was in. It could have been horizontal for all we know, and that's assuming it was still in the shape of a tail. The reason the planes did so much better against the WTC is because the WTC was not made of reinforced concrete. It was not designed to withstand an attack. The pentagon was.