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Originally posted by 1fastredsc
They stated that the walls that it went through were lined with steel. Also that the turbine engines from boeing are made of both titanium and steel.

IIRC it's not steel plate. It's more like a "wrap" of steel mesh. Designed to hold blasted concrete and rock together. It was designed for a bomb sitting there, not a plane-bomb approaching at 400 mph.

Not sure what you mean about the turbine engines..... I suppose you're expecting to see them laying around in one piece or something?

FWIW, the DOD is real touchy about photos being taken real close, since all sorts of plane parts and official DOD "stuff" (maybe classified, who knows) was laying around and burning. So there's not a lot of up close photos of the stuff the firefighters were working on floating around. I think it took a couple of weeks for Fox 5 to get some photos of the burned office space to put on TV - even though (no **** here at all) people that worked there were required to show up for work the next day. They didn't have the fire completely out.