How did my imagery reeked of Wile E. Coyote? I said the wings would have been cut off. Go look at any other pictures of plane crashes and there is always huge debris laying everywhere, usually wings. That was not the case here.
Planes also don’t normally slam into large, re-inforced concrete structures that are fronted with limestone. Remember, this building was built as the HQ for the War Department during WWII It was built, not exactly to be a bombshelter per se, but with the knowledge that it might get bombed someday.
So it hit a hardened structure and do so while full of fuel…
It’s radically different than striking a farmer’s field and skidding while breaking apart. That stretches out the deceleration. and since F=Ma (force = Mass X acceleration) or in this case deceleration, F is going to be smaller.
Aircraft are made of rather thin aluminum. With it’s speed and mass, and rapid deceleration, F would be HUGE. It would crumple like a sheet of aluminum foil, acting more like a fluid than a solid ( this is kind of what ‘crumple zones’ in cars do,) The F is so large at almost every point, that it excedes the structural integrity of the metal. The metal becomes a fluid structure.
What you would see is small chunks occasionally blown off, but most moving as a large, fluid mass in the same direction as the inertia vector ( Object in motion tends to stay in motion)
Which, in the case of the Pentegon, would be into the building structure itself.
IIRC, they found the engine core shafts and front landing gear well inside the inner rings. Which would be consistent with what happened.