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Re: 9/11 doc on bbc 2 last night
Feb 25, 2007, 15:10
Evaine wrote:
I'm told explosions can do wierd things - for instance, one of the groups of firefighters attending the scene (most, if not all, of whom died) were believed to have been looting the site for a while because neatly folded jeans were found in their fire engine. Turns out that they had actually blown there, still folded. Charles Pellegrino has written a book about it, comparing the blast with other disasters like Pompeii.


Yeah, I don't find it incomprehensible at all that a lot of stuff survived the fire- remember that a plane's fuel is back in the wings, and most of the fuselage of each plane smashed thru the tower's walls, and even some out the other side, throwing a lot of debris forward and clear of the ignition of the fuel.
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