wrote:
Young Charles Redmond was understandably shaken, but how would he have
been "squashed like a bug" by an aluminum airplane that weighs less
than 75% of the Jeep he was driving?

A ton of aluminum will squash you just as effectively as a ton of lead.

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.