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Mick Mar 12 2009, 10:48 PM

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Although the plane was reportedly "heavily laden with jet fuel" when it "slammed at about 575 mph almost straight down into a rolling patch of grassy land," examination of the soil and groundwater around the crash site found no evidence of contamination by jet fuel. [4]

This link; http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/specialreports/oneyearlater/s_90857.html has slightly more detail than the one you provided. Neither link says no fuel was found in the soil or ground water, just that it was safe. More details are needed before we can say if there was fuel contamination there or not. Do you consider the statements by Miller in your link that he identified remains to be suitable evidence that Flight 93 crashed there?

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DEP Secretary David E. Hess suggested a possible explanation for this absence of jet fuel, which was that "most of the hazardous fluids were consumed by the crash's fire." [9] A particular problem with this explanation is that some of the first witnesses to arrive at the scene noticed only very small fires there.

It is quite likely that most of the fuel was burned in the large fireball shown in Val McClatchey's photo. What did not burn may have evaporated before samples were taken leaving only trace amounts that were within levels deemed to be safe. I have not been able to find more specific data so far though.

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Are these tiny fires what we would expect if a large commercial aircraft had just crashed there? And could they really have burned up 37,500 pounds of jet fuel?

I'm not surprised that a large amount of fuel can burn very quickly if it is subjected to the severe shock of a high speed crash.

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If the fires had been able to consume 37,500 pounds of jet fuel, surely they would have also burned up all this paper?

I'm certain anything in the fireball or nest to the flames was consumed. It is not surprising that a high speed crash could eject flammable debris from the scene before it could be heated enough to burn.












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