Will, I have a question. FEMA chose to assume that the plane was fully fueled.
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Originally Posted by FEMA, Chapter 2
The time to consume the jet fuel can be reasonably computed. At the upper bound, if one assumes that all 10,000 gallons of fuel were evenly spread across a single building floor, it would form a pool that would be consumed by fire in less than 5 minutes
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Yet, your logic that 3,500 is a more accurate estimate is compelling. Shouldn't the amount of fuel on board at takeoff be a known/recorded amount? Also, if 10,000 was the actual amount, would that have been sufficient to cause the collapse?
Wonderful thread, will. Thank you for the time taken in laying it all out.