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by reso 537 days ago
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.
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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.