So what is that "Bruckheimer's Third Law" or something? Look, have you ever witnessed the aftermath of a car crash? In Hollywood, whenever a car crashes, it bursts into a nice big fireball. We all know that in real life, that isn't the case. In fact, cars seldom explode into flames in a crash. But sometimes they do. Two identical cars can crash at identical speeds in very similar circumstances and yet one gets engulfed in flames and the other doesn't.
If you got into a car crash in which your car burst into flames and your evil-clone insurance agent came to you and said "look, I've got video of a car just like yours crashing at very much the speed you say you were travelling, but hey, it doesn't burst into flames, does it? Obviously you torched your car after the crash in order to get the insurance!" how would you respond?
Big metal contraptions full of flammable liquids don't all behave in exactly the same way when they hit something solid at speed. You know this perfectly well from your own life experience. You say I "don't have to make it complicated" but you're missing the point (yet again). The point is that this is complicated. The non-linear dynamics of fluids and gases (like the formation of a mushroom cloud) are about the most complicated events known to man. This isn't something you can just arm-wave your way through. For all you know the precise angle at which the plane hit the ground (which would affect the sequence and direction of the impacts upon such vital elements as the fuel tanks and the engines) might play a crucial role in the size of the resultant cloud. Differences in time and place of ignition could lead to different outcomes orders of magnitude different from each other. The same is true for a myriad of other variables (just think how crucially different the precise local humidity or air-pressure might be, or what materials may have been in the plane's cargo bay). I don't know, and you clearly don't know.
And yet, on the basis of this stunning, almost complete ignorance ("hey, of course all plane crashes must look exactly alike--wow, dood, I just found a photo of a crash involving a different plane, with different fuel, that crashed at a different speed, at a different angle, in unknown but presumably different atmospheric conditions, and taken by a different camera with unknown lens, aperture, shutter-speed and film speed and the smoke cloud looks a bit different! OMG that PROVES she's a liar") you were happy to publically slander this poor woman. Do you begin to understand why people here don't have much respect for you?
