OT: World Trade crash...

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
Date: Tue Sep 11 21:17:05 2001

Close - it's listed as a 312,000lb take off weight which generally means the
max weight to be able to lift off the ground (full 69,000 lb "payload" of
passengers, fuel, etc) so it fully fueled and half the payload is one heavy
mo-fo.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Chuck McManis
-> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 6:35 PM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Re: OT: World Trade crash...
->
->
-> At 12:17 PM 9/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
-> >If memory serves me, a 737 weighs in at about 200,000lbs empty,
-> add maybe
-> >another 150,000 for people, fuel, cargo and baggage.
->
-> Plus, in case no one else has noticed, all the planes were large
-> aircraft
-> heading for west coast destinations, i.e. full of fuel. I have
-> no trouble
-> at all believing that a fuel/air explosion with 200,000 gallons
-> of jet fuel
-> could bring down the building.
->
-> Give blood, give life,
-> --Chuck
->
->
->
->
Received on Tue Sep 11 2001 - 21:17:05 BST

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