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Originally Posted by willravel
It's simple physics. Engines don't turn into jello upon impact. Bodies in motion tend to stay in motion. A massve object collides with another object at a great speed, but doesn't leave one mark at all. I can chip away at brick with a small hammer moving relatievly slowly. Why is it that a very heavy engine that is moving at hundreds of miles per hour doesn't leave any record of a collision? Well Occam's razor tells us that the simplest explaination is that there were no large engines that struck the wall.
Honestly, there are too many variables to account for to know with 100% certianty.
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This is the part that makes me uncomfortable with "simple physics."
Do we know they didn't make any marks? Where would they go in the collision? Do the mounts points fail early leaving the engines to continue unabated? That would be a problem vs. the story, but what if that isn't how they behave? Do they instead slow progressively somewhat with the fuselage and wings only to be pulled into the enlarging hole? How do the wings fail? Sheer or break forward from deceleration, or back from being drawn into the hole?
Those are the questions I was getting at in my last post. It may be correct to assume everything would pancake but I don't know enough about how those jets behave against what's essentially a stone face with windows.
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