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Will, I'm not a mechanical engineer but I've seen enough to know a layman's common sense can lead to flawed assumptions.
I'd like to see a simulation or explanation for how a large jet behaves in a frontal impact. The force/area over time would be much higher for the fuselage than engines but what happens during those first moments? Does the nose crumple and the rest of the jet continue forward until the force drives the center through? Do the wings shear off and continue forward with engines, and the energies then vaporize much of what's left? Should the engines have flattened and gone poof, or would they have broken through the reinforced concrete? Or would the wings and engines stay attached and be pulled inward, into the maelstrom?
It all depends on the design of that jet, the structure, and the forces of the event. Without an engineering knowledge of everything we're out of our league.
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