Originally Posted by
AlexanderH
... why then have the black boxes from the aircraft that smashed into the twin towers not been found and never will be found?
What would have been the point of sifting minutely through millions of tons of rubble to find two small pieces of equipment that were as likely as not to have been totally useless and unreadable? How much would it have cost, and how long would it have taken? And what would the searchers have had to do about all the other stuff they would come across while they were doing it, including a lot of asbestos and a lot of body parts? What would have been the sense in even trying it?
It's not exactly as if there was any mystery about why those aircraft flew into the World Trade Center.