Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes

What recordings? Ones that probably take one frame every 6 seconds or something? How fast does an airliner go through the screen at 300+kts? Odds are against it even showing up at all and at the best a blur. You probably also think that an airliner would leave a cartoon-cutout-hole like in looney-tunes too? This isn't wiley coyote and the road runner. The wings come off rather easily and "fold" in behind the fuselage, which enters a hole that happens to be just about the exact size of a 757 fuselage. Almost no large pieces are left with that kind of energy, except turbine wheels and a few big solid parts like landing gear, in other words the kind of parts that were recovered. It just blows my mind that people think an airliner would cut out a "cartoon" shape at that kind of speed and then you'd find the intact airliner embedded 200 feet in there or something. Think of airliners like an egg, nice structure that is relatively strong as long as it doesn't actually hit something solid and when it does, that solid thing is going to win, easily.