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Originally Posted by Quicksilver
All of this is going no-where. For example,
Commander Kolstad also questions many aspects of the attack on the World Trade Center. “How could a steel and concrete building collapse after being hit by a Boeing 767? Didn’t the engineers design it to withstand a direct hit from a Boeing 707, approximately the same size and weight of the 767? The evidence just doesn’t add up."
Everyone knows by now that the two buildings were built by the new York port authority were not inspected and not up to code regarding the structural floors in both buildings. These floors were the only thing holding up the outer walls of both buildings. Had they been built up to code the lower floors would have held the weight of the destroyed upper floors.
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Not to mention the fact that they were both loaded up with jet fuel and in a dive bomb maneuver. Most aircraft pilots in an emergency situation would not be aiming at the buildings in a full speed head-on.
Now I'm only speculating but I'm assuming that a pilot in an emergency situation would be trying to avoid the tower. The fact that these fanatics were on a mission to destroy the buildings lead to a worst case scenario.
You can hope to design a building to stand up to such a scenario; however, until it actually happens you are relying on computer models.
Michael