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Trader77

06/11/07 3:33 PM

#272858 RE: SoxFan #272856

Here, since you are completely unaware of the facts:

1. If the World Trade Center (WTC) towers were designed to withstand multiple impacts by Boeing 707 aircraft, why did the impact of individual 767s cause so much damage?

As stated in Section 5.3.2 of NIST NCSTAR 1, a document from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) indicated that the impact of a [single, not multiple] Boeing 707 aircraft was analyzed during the design stage of the WTC towers. However, NIST investigators were unable to locate any documentation of the criteria and method used in the impact analysis and, therefore, were unable to verify the assertion that “… such collision would result in only local damage which could not cause collapse or substantial damage to the building.…”

The capability to conduct rigorous simulations of the aircraft impact, the growth and spread of the ensuing fires, and the effects of fires on the structure is a recent development. Since the approach to structural modeling was developed for the NIST WTC investigation, the technical capability available to the PANYNJ and its consultants and contactors to perform such analyses in the 1960s would have been quite limited in comparison to the capabilities brought to bear in the NIST investigation.

The damage from the impact of a Boeing 767 aircraft (which is about 20 percent bigger than a Boeing 707) into each tower is well documented in NCSTAR 1-2. The massive damage was caused by the large mass of the aircraft, their high speed and momentum, which severed the relatively light steel of the exterior columns on the impact floors. The results of the NIST impact analyses matched well with observations (from photos and videos and analysis of recovered WTC steel) of exterior damage and of the amount and location of debris exiting from the buildings. This agreement supports the premise that the structural damage to the towers was due to the aircraft impact and not to any alternative forces.


http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm
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Alex G

06/11/07 3:48 PM

#272861 RE: SoxFan #272856

actually you could think of it this way

that the towers were supposedly built in a way to withstand an airliner crash

well they did withstand the initial impact

but the roaring fires that could not be contained weakened those crucial steel elements enough and coupled with the damage to structural integrity caused a domino effect

so it wasn't JUST a fire or JUST the impact... it was both

another myth or outright "lie" is that the fires were all but out

where's all that smoke coming from if the fires are nonexistent?

LOL... i gotta run