9/11 - what happened to the planes?

[myyve]

Thinking on from that awful day after the anniversary yesterday, one thought has come to mind.

What happened to the planes and those onboard, once they were flown into the twin towers? I know this probably does sound silly and I'm so sorry if it comes across as ignorant, but I truly do not know, and the internet doesn't mention anything, either..

Did they come to a crash landing afterwards? Or did they continue flying? What actually happened to the plane and those poor souls on board?

The 4th plane didn't "land". 2 crashed into the world trade centre, one flew into the Pentagon and a fourth (thought to be intended for the White House) crashed into a field after passengers resisted the hijack. Everyone on all four planes were killed.

Yes, it's a very small comfort to know that they would have died instantly, their suffering was in the moments before impact (for those aware of what was about to happen).

Incredibly ignorant and insensitive. There's plenty of youtube videos, both genuine and conspiracy theories, you really didn't have to come on here and ask.

Any parts of the planes that hit the twin towers would have been burnt on impact or crushed when the towers fell, although one or two plane parts were identified. I understand the angle of impact, speed of impact and WHAT was hit (wall, ground etc) would also all have a part to play in what could be found.

It's not though, is it. It's nothing to do with that. It's because people enjoy turning on someone and bullying them from the safety of their kitchens. Honestly I've never seen anything quite like it

Have you not seen the footage? There was a fourth plane as well. But the passengers overpowered the hijacker's even though they knew there was no chance they could save themselves. They avoided further devastation by crashing in a remote area away from the intended target.

This is incorrect planes 1+2 into towers 3 into pentagon and 4 passengers brought down in field in Pennsylvania. I am a proud New Yorker that lived through the attacks. The planes that you are referring to pretty much melted and broke into billions of pieces.

Oh come on, the footage has been shown a million times since that day, it is readily available online. If this really is for research then there is plenty of detailed information available.

It’s entirely right that if you want to know something you should ask - which you did very respectfully. I work in emergency services and sometimes have to look through reports of incidents where there were fatalities or serious injuries. It’s how we learn to improve our service and hopefully achieve better outcomes. Anyway. Back to your question. The planes, which had recently taken off were full of fuel. The force of the impact ruptured the fuel tanks and the energy/heat released would have virtually vaporised the wreckage. The heat generated, plus the damage caused by the impact compromised the integrity of the buildings structure which is what caused them to collapse. There was a programme on channel 5 last night which shows exactly what happened with time stamps which will give you a good idea of how events unfolded on the day. Well done to you for wanting to find out more about this. We should be passing memories of horrific events through the generations to hopefully prevent repetition. Nobody would ever criticise someone for wanting to learn more about the holocaust for example. Especially since there are now so few people surviving who can talk about it first hand.

you say, after you’ve just went into depth on how they all died.

I'm shocked at the level of stupidity of comments on this post.

A full plane (fuel, passengers, luggage) would not just 'fly on' after hitting a building.

And the 4th plane landed safely? Seriously? The 4th plane 'landed' away from a city but all on board were killed.

This is modern history folks - most of us were aware of what happened at least, if not actual witnesses to the shift in the whole world immediately after, that continues to impact on our everyday lives.

Educate yourself, or at the very least have a quick look at YouTube for the footage (myriad documentaries are also available)

Don’t apologise for your post, you have done nothing to offend. I hope your case study goes well.

Are you asking what happened to the planes’ fabric and structure?
As they hit a structure ( building or ground) obviously most of the plane would break up. Fuel would cause a fire. As we know, all passengers and crews died on impact, killed either by the impact or the ensuing fires.
All the debris of the Twin Towers and the planes was removed and would all have been sifted through very carefully. Any personal effects that survived would have been identified and returned to nok where possible. Bodies were identified by DNA, dental records, personal effects worn etc so their nok could arrange funerals.
What happened to the debris of the planes and unidentifiable effects I don’t know, perhaps landfill somewhere? Stored on a military facility in case further evidence is ever looked for in the future?

To be honest this has been really tough to read through. My confidence has been hugely knocked. I don't think this career path is going to work for me.

The only thing I would gently suggest to the OP, is that by asking some of these questions, it is clear that you don’t quite grasp the enormity and the scale of what happened that day.

There’s nothing wrong with that at all. I mean, even just comprehending the size of the buildings before anything happened is not easy if you’ve never been there.

You will need a better grasp on this so that your understanding comes across well in your case study, so keep at it. Lots of reading and watching video evidence, and I guess even this thread has probably helped a bit to comprehend it.

Well done on starting the course, and good luck with your research.

I imagine everyone aboard all 4 planes died instantly. It’s the beforehand that’s heartbreaking to think about.

We know that flight 93 was aware of what was happening. Thats the flight where the passengers and crew took back control of the plane, and crashed it into a field so there wouldn’t be any ground casualties. We know from phone calls, audio recordings and the like that they were all aware they were about to die, and decided to make their last actions heroic.

It’s not too far a stretch to imagine the people on flights 11, 175 and 77 knew what was coming too. I’m not sure if they were aware about the towers, as I believe The Pentagon had just been notified a few moments before 77 hit. Flight 93’s heroes knew about New York, as some of them had been able to reach family, who informed them of what had happened. It’s from this they were able to deduce the hijackers plans and make a plan to take back the plane.

Either way, all of them would have been terrified. They knew death was coming, and there was no hope of saving them. It’s the kind of thing that we can never comprehend, and I’m thankful for that. It’s not something I’d like to think about too often

Absolutely. Some people have scented blood in the water and just want to stick the boot in (sorry for mixed metaphors).

All the 'educate yourself' posters should be ashamed at their own hypocrisy. This site is used as all manner of information-gathering. Stop policing the thread.

I'd see a hundred of these threads rather than another twatty 'unpopular opinions' one.

Oh come on You only need to see the slightest bit of footage to know they exploded - whether you were two at the time or not there's been 22 years of coverage you can't have not been exposed to it in all that time

Given that there was debris from the titan disaster is it really that crazy to wonder if there was from this as well?

Door goodness sake the poster was 2 when it happened! We have had 22 years of knowing about what happened.

Surely the OP's age is irrelevant. it's history and very well documented in numerous forms!

I don’t mean to be unkind, but seriously? Being only 2 when it happened isn’t really an excuse as the footage has been shown so many hundreds of thousands of times since it happened. It’s freely available on YouTube from numerous angles, and there are countless documentaries about it. I mean the fact they explode on impact and don’t come out the other side of the building kind of proves they didn’t fly on and crash land 😶 I know kids today who are fascinated by 9/11 and know lots of about it. Age is irrelevant.

@ShipSpace what a sensible and measured post. I hope the OP reads it and understands it. Of course you won't last five minutes on MN being all reasonable like that. You need to work on your outrage a bit more please 😉

@myyve

OMG re-read what you have asked! Seriously a great big plane flies into a building at speed and you ASK what happened to the planes! Rethink as a missile loaded with fuel (with people on board) at speed firing into a building.

Fire, explosions, death, dust, devastation.

Or perhaps in Barbie land they go through the building and emerge the other side and land quietly in a field somewhere and the people all get off without a scratch!

This post is probably the most useful one of the thread for you, OP.

I guess this is the kind of detail that you just couldn’t find among the masses of information out there.

I hope this one helps you to understand what physically happened.

Please don’t give up. Just the fact that you were looking for detail that wasn’t easily available is a good research mindset.