re: " it didn't make the kind of hole we would expect to see is curious, but that's all."
I'm never quick to pass that sort of judgement on what's very curious. To me, the hole verges on impossible.
I've also long wondered how it is that in Washington D.C. and Arlington, one of the most photographed places on the planet, there's not a single photo of something recognizable as a plane coming in to strike one of the area's most imporatnt buildings. Not even a picture of it from afar. Weird, weird, weird.

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