C J Campbell wrote:

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It is really too bad that he did not run into the nuclear power plant. It
would have been an interesting experiment to see just how much damage he
would have done to the thing.



Actually the only damage would have been to the painting and the grass.

Nuclear power plant are designed (and tested) so that such accident
would cause any damage. I have seen a video of a plane sent into a
replication of the walls (several feet thick) of a nuclear plant. For
the simulation the plane was not really flying, it was rolling on a
train-like track at a speed similar to a flying (and falling) aircraft,
and it looked like to be a dual-engine way larger than a cessna. Result:
the plane was about 1 inch thick and the wall undamaged.

If a plane happens to crash into a nuclear plant and actually go through
the walls, I sure don't want to be close enough to experiment the result.