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Were the passengers on the 9/11 planes killed instantly?

If you’re moving over 550 MPH and you crash into a building and the plane disintegrates and then becomes engulfed in high temperature flames, your body will be shredded into 1,000 pieces and then vaporized by the heat. The human reaction time is 1/5th of one second, and at that speed, your body is moving .1527 miles per second (about a city block).

From the time the plane hit the building, the amount of distance into the building your body travels in that 1/5th of 1 second before your brain receives the signal of the physical impact, your body will have traveled 161.3 feet into the destruction, shredding, and fireball.

Maybe … just maybe, for an instant your brain will sense and comprehend what is going on.

Then, lights out.


When I was in a head-on collision car crash, I remember before impact that I was going to crash and tried to step on the brake, and I blacked out on impact. I didn’t feel a thing and when I came to, I realized my head had hit the windshield and I also broke my left femur but I had no recollection or pain.

I was not wearing my seatbelt. Hopefully it was the same for the victims and they were unconscious.

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