No. The crater was made by the fuselage and some of the structural damage was done by the wings. And a crash resulting from an explosion in flight is just naturally going to look different from a controlled flight into terrain. To give you some idea what I am talking about, Flt 103 was like a beer keg dropped from miles up. Flt 93 was an enormous freaking lawn dart.
Where did you get those figures?
Why the difference?[.QUOTE]
The soil at Shanksville was looser than that at Lockerbie. The plane pushed it up, and it fell back down around the tunnel that the fuselage dug.
To address the vegetation and why it did not catch fire, bear in mind that the explosion would have taken most of the oxygen out of the air, making it almost impossible to start a fire until the air rushed back in.
You don't get to do that here. I have experience in airfield fire and rescue operations. I have seen what can happen to the structure of an aircraft in a crash. You obviously haven't. Just stop acting like anexpert. You are obviously no rocket scientist, so don't be lecturing us.
as far as the ground coming up
id like to point out the videos i linked in
post 59
aside from lookin real cool they give some insight
so you have a ball bearing dropping into a uniform sand pile with no other material
then add the variables of 93 (plane mass, shape, angle of impact, ground consistency, humidity?, etc etc etc lol) and you get the idea