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The article describes the 767s as "fully fueled." That is incorrect. They were each carrying around 10,000 gallons of fuel, less than half their capacity. A 767-200ER has a range of over 6,000 miles, so their planned trans-continental flights were less than half their range, requiring half the fuel.

The 707-340, a collision from which the towers were designed to survive, has a fuel capacity of 23,000 gallons, and the aircraft is similar in weight and dimensions to the 767-200.

Please be bold in fixing gross inaccuracies in wikipedia articles. Martin
I don't think "fully fueled" is really incorrect here. The planes carried enough fuel for their coast-to-coast flights. Although their fuel capacities were greater, these planes on these routes would never have had much more fuel than they had at impact. JDG 18:12 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)

-Why not just use the fact in the article and have done with it? Saying something like...'On impact, the 767s were carrying approximately 10,000 gallons of fuel; while about half the capacity of the 767s fuel tanks, the fuel proved more than sufficient to ignite combustibles in the WTC tower, and, ultimately, steel whose fireproofing had been blown off, and led to the tower's demise.' (Now, that sample writing, of course, presumes that the facts themselves are accurate.) This way, we don't have to argue the semantics of whether the planes were fully fueled - we've simply provided the fact and left that interpretation to the reader.

On the U.N. International Day of Peace: See U.N. Peaceday 2003. There is a PDF link to UN Resolution 55/282 which states that as of 1981, the International Day of Peace was the third Tuesday of every September (which would make it September 18, 2001); and as of 2002, the date would be changed to be September 21, every year. Skybunny 23:20, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)

On the other hand... Bleh. Now I've run across this press release, which, in fact, is a message from Kofi Annan, for September 11. *sigh* Well, I see why they made it September 21 from there on out; UN Resolution 55/14 changed the opening day of the General Assembly 'to the Tuesday following the second Monday in September'; and the day the GA met used to automatically be the Day of Peace. Eeek. My bad. Since the 'day of peace' was on a day's scope (rather than hours, minutes, etc.), I added it back instead to here: Timeline_of_the_September_11,_2001_Terrorist_Attack. Hope that works for all.