Originally Posted by
raehl311
The question isn't so much whether it burns, but how fast it burns. In this case, it doesn't appear that the carbon fiber burned particularly fast. It also appears that the hull survived the collision very well.
You'd rather have a hull better at surviving an impact that then burns completely (but slowly) than a hull that doesn't survive the impact.
This is my take as well. There is a strange amount of focus in this thread on the fact that the aircraft burned after being doused with the entire contents of another aircraft's ruptured fuel tanks (What would we expect it to do?), and surprisingly little mention of the fact that structural integrity of the airframe was almost perfectly retained after striking a ~15 ton object while going ~150 miles / hour.