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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Why make such an elaborate downswing with a huge airliner to hit the building from the side when Hanjour could have just brought it down on top of the Pentagon? He surely could have created far more damage that way. It's like instead of stomping on an empty box to collapse it from the top, you kick lower half of the bottom side to try to achieve the same results, which is infinitely harder. I'll never get it.
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Commercial airliners are not designed to be used as dive bombers, their controls first lock up and make the plane impossible to control over a certain speed and then wings would rip off.
I assume the hijackers had enough sense to look this up, probably tested the various approachs on microsoft flight sims and realised that the slow approach gave them a chance to make last minute adjustments and actually hit the building, not the car park 40 feet off or the like (although even then he apparently missed the building and hit the grass in front then skipped in).