When the jets hit the WTC wouldn't all the fuel have been ignited and consumed instantly. However the 911 commission report said the fuel traveled all the way down the elevator shaft that was Supposedly sealed.....and then blew up! Doesn't make any sence, can someone please explain?
2006-10-31 13:25:58 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Just so I'm clear. How did the elevator shaft become sealed? Not a very useful elevator if it's sealed.
2006-10-31 13:34:29 · answer #1 · answered by Jim T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all jet fuel does not "naturally vaporize" like gasoline does. Undoubtedly the tumble down the elevator shaft made it break up a lot (vaporize by "splash"), -- whatever set it off did make an explosion, but it was not all instantly consumed, and probably would still be burning hours after the towers collapsed, -, had they not been "squashed out" by the collapsing debris! Bear in mind that each one of those jets had maybe 40-60 thousand pounds of fuel in them - since they would have been near full! Jet fuel weighs near 8# per gallon, so you can now see the volume of fuel involved!
Propane gas will explode, (at least all that is released into an air "rich" atmosphere), -that inside the tank will blow like a "blowtorch" till the pressure gets small enough that the fire can enter the hole it is coming out of! And the smaller the hole, the lower the pressure has to be to let fire enter!
Gasoline easily ignites, and naturally evaporates very rapidly, but it still takes a little while for it to be all burned up (if it is "pooled" to some depth or the flow out to air is restricted) Fire will not actually enter the "holding vessel" - such as a tank -- through the hole it is exiting through till there is an opening it can go through (won't go through liquid).
JP4 (jet fuel) is much the same as kerosene (or light fuel oil used in furnaces). -- it will burn relatively slowly at first till the liquid starts boiling (like if it was in a bucket). the top of the liquid will burn but the rest will stay right there in the bucket till it gets hot enough to boil. The boiling makes it vaporize many times fastrer so it will burn higher, then it will boil harder, and the fire will get many times bigger than when it first started, -- from there it basically gets so hot it (the liquid)"explodes all over the place, - (at which point it "flashes" into a full scale fire explosion)
In the furnace fuel is vaporized into very fine droplets (near fog density), this is very volitle, - and since it is a controlled amount, it heats the furnace quite well. It is not sprayed in to the chamber in near liqid form!!
2006-10-31 22:32:33 · answer #2 · answered by guess78624 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
fuel is not like oxygen
the flame has to reach the liquid in some way
as the fuel lurches forward due to going from 400 mph to 0 in less than a millisecond
it will fly all over the place
probably a ball of liquid fuel flew into the destroyed elevator door
and another one that was flaming flew it right after it
the fuel takes time to burn so it will have time to reach teh elevator
and don't forget
there were lots of papers in the WTC
that could have caused the fuel to ignite as well
2006-10-31 21:29:18 · answer #3 · answered by Eng 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Jet fuel is not like oxygen, (but is very much like kerosine), and only the vapor actually burns. JP1 burns at a much slower rate than oxygen, hydrogen or even gasoline in order to be able to control thrust in the engines. Watch some of those old films where they crash tested jet liners in the desert. You can see the fuel spewing everywhere as the plane breaks up and takes hours to stop burning.
2006-10-31 21:58:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the jet fuel was consumed immediatly but the problem was there was such a large amount of fuel see both plane were going to the west coast so they were carring full loads of fuel for jet fuel to burn you need air and heat heat from the crash air we breath and the fuel from the plane but the fuel has to turn from a liquid to a vapor to burn so what happens is the flame burns on the top of the fuel where it mixes with air the large volume of fuel they had ran ever where and evaporated and burned
2006-10-31 21:39:02 · answer #5 · answered by ncwb1 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Please understand what happened on Sept 11th. A peaceful future depends on every American having a clear view of what took place. Islamic radicals, who hold a very different worldview than us, orchestrated an attack on this country. They spent a little money to cause us to spend alot in retaliation. They want the perceived decadent culture of the West to end. They don't accept any form of democracy since is based on man-made laws and not laws from their god, Allah.
There are people in the world (many) who interpret the Koran literally. They desire to reinstate the Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East and later the world. This Caliph (a successor to Mohammed of sorts) will rule with Sharia Law (Islamic Law). The holy warriors (Mujahedeen) that fight this Jihad (Islamic Holy War) claim it is one of the five duties of every muslim. Jihad is their way. How do we know this? They tell us - often.
2006-10-31 21:47:45 · answer #6 · answered by nobody 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't bother thinking about it, just take the government's word for what happened. Be a good sheeple and go back to bed.
2006-10-31 21:28:55 · answer #7 · answered by Cybeq 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋