WI: 9/11 fails. Sort of...

The statue of liberty isn't very big it would probably wreck the whole thing if it gets that close.
 
If I walked into a crowded movie theatre with a gun loaded with sixteen bullets and there were two hundred people in the theatre I could get them to do what I wanted. Even if I made every bullet count the maximum number of people I could kill would be sixteen so there's still one hundred and eighty-four people who would live if they all decided to rush me or resist in some other way. What keeps those two hundred people in line isn't that I have a gun with sixteen bullets but that no one wants to be one of the sixteen that could potentially be harmed in some way. As long as those people believe they have a chance of being harmed in some way they would not resist me.

The same principle would've applied on the hijacked aircraft. The passengers and crew would've complied with the demands of the hijackers because they were terrified of being harmed or killed if they didn't. None of them had any idea that the moment the hijackers seized control of the aircraft they were doomed. None of them knew the aircraft were going to be used in what amounted to a kamikaze attack. The only reason why the passengers on United 93 resisted whereas the others didn't was they found out what had happened to the other hijacked flights. They resisted precisely because they knew they were going to die regardless of what they did.

There is only one scenario in which I could imagine the 9/11 attacks not quite going to plan once the aircraft had been hijacked and that is if one or more of the hijackers had made a critical error by not switching off their communications equipment and accidentally revealed what they were going to do. That might've given the authorities just enough time to evacuate one or more of the buildings or, if the flight crew or passengers found out what the hijackers intended to do before it was too late to do anything, they might've resisted.
 

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I was at a presentation given by one of the senior people involved in the investigation; after giving us considerable warning, he showed us a slide of some remains. It's fair to say they were not recognizable in any way.
There's also American Airlines Flight 191.

On May 25, 1979 American Airlines Flight 191 crashed after taking off from O'Hare Airport in Chicago and exploded in a mushroom of flame onto an open field and a trailer park. Two hundred and fifty eight passengers, thirteen crew members, and two people on the ground were killed instantly.

Within hours the Cook County medical examiner's office set up a forensics lab at the crash site in an American Airlines hangar. Refrigerated vans were right there on the scene to keep the bodies from decomposing. National Transportation Safety Board flew in a "go team," a group of crash experts from around the country who keep their suitcases packed in case they get a call, day or night, to fly to a crash scene.

Many of the bodies of the passengers were dismembered due to impact injuries received when the plane dove into the ground. One fireman who was part of the recovery operation said "We didn't see one body intact. Just bits and pieces. We haven't been able to see a face or anything, just trunks, hands, arms, heads, and parts of legs . . . they were all charred." When bodies or body parts were removed, a stick with a number was placed in that spot.
 
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