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You're making an assumption that the outcome would have been different if that wall wasn't there. You're wrong. 50m past that wall is another wall, 5m after that is a highway.


Indeed I'm making tons of assumptions, but you have not yet convinced me that they are wrong. A brick wall is no reinforced concrete, and how is a road at plane level fundamentally different from the runway the plane was "gliding" on?


the 2nd wall is a brick wall, rather than reinforced concrete (which is what seems to be the first wall).

I dont think the plane would get pulverized hitting a brick wall, and the distance will also slow the speed.

And the highway is not above the plane's travel axis, so the highway is a non sequitur. Not to mention even more distance to slow down.




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