No, and they’re reinforced to carry all the fuel. They’d cut into the building better than the fuselage would. Hell, they’re the whole reason we can cut thru the air in the first place.
And where do you expect them to go? They're travelling at 500 MPH parallel to the ground into the side of a building. The building isn't strong enough to stop steel moving at that speed instantaneosly so that the wings would shear off and fall to the ground below, they'd be in the building.
The huge skyscraper beams are engineered to hold up a building, all the force of which is directed primarily vertically. A plane impacting those same beams at a 90° angle to their intended loading direction is going to have a much easier time to cause deformation than if you tried the same operation with the same beam oriented horizontally.
Likewise the wings contain steel spars and ribs. The wings are the strongest part of an aircraft, as they are what undergo all of the loading a plane experiences, and hold up the plane. The fuselage is, for all intents and purposes, tacked onto the wings, and not the wings tacked onto the fuselage.
But you need to remember that the walls of the twin towers aren't a solid barrier, it's more like a filter or a grate, and at 500+ MPH, the dynamics of the collision are such that the plane is going to be, for lack of a better term, filtered by what it doesn't destroy. Disintegration of the aircraft on impact is not exactly a surprising outcome of that collision.
well I dont know shit about wings, its true. but they wouldnt be sheared off by huge steel skyscraper beams?
No, and they’re reinforced to carry all the fuel. They’d cut into the building better than the fuselage would. Hell, they’re the whole reason we can cut thru the air in the first place.
And where do you expect them to go? They're travelling at 500 MPH parallel to the ground into the side of a building. The building isn't strong enough to stop steel moving at that speed instantaneosly so that the wings would shear off and fall to the ground below, they'd be in the building.
The huge skyscraper beams are engineered to hold up a building, all the force of which is directed primarily vertically. A plane impacting those same beams at a 90° angle to their intended loading direction is going to have a much easier time to cause deformation than if you tried the same operation with the same beam oriented horizontally.
Likewise the wings contain steel spars and ribs. The wings are the strongest part of an aircraft, as they are what undergo all of the loading a plane experiences, and hold up the plane. The fuselage is, for all intents and purposes, tacked onto the wings, and not the wings tacked onto the fuselage.
But you need to remember that the walls of the twin towers aren't a solid barrier, it's more like a filter or a grate, and at 500+ MPH, the dynamics of the collision are such that the plane is going to be, for lack of a better term, filtered by what it doesn't destroy. Disintegration of the aircraft on impact is not exactly a surprising outcome of that collision.