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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 10:27 PM
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69. Well, there's plenty of pictures around the Web.
No seats. You wouldn't expect them to survive a 530 mph collision with reinforced concrete. There was plenty of pieces of airframe structure scattered all over the inside of the building. The pieces which weren't burned would still have the pale green Boeing paint on them and would therefore be easily recognizable.

Engine parts were also found inside, including a good part of one of the compressor rotors. A huge chunk of one of the main landing gear punched through to the third ring and made a big hole. Alloy wheels were found. A large piece of the fuselage, with the airline colors still on it was found on the lawn adjacent to the collision site. Pic is somewhere in this thread.

Almost everything else was either crushed, sliced, diced, or burnt up. Forget the luggage, seats and people. Only little pieces would remain.

Here's a pic of some 727's in Boeing pale green (on the tail engine nacelles and the top of the vert stab). They use the same treatment on the entire airframe.

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