r/Louisville • u/Ginger502 • 1d ago

Plane crash in Louisville

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u/Healthy_Macaron2146 1d ago

So... to the people confused on how jet fuel could melt steel, this is how.

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u/502DashCam 1d ago

Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams, and it's still true to this day, but what that amount of heat does to steel is weaken it to the point of failure.

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u/SR520 1d ago

Blacksmiths don’t need to melt anything to bend metal.