Just saw 911 footage

I don't think anyone thought the buildings would fall until the first one actually fell. That's why the fire dept. continued to carry out rescue operations. However, once the first building fell, the fire dept began to evacuate their personnel and to tell anyone and everyone to leave.

I know of no evidence that that plane was shot down. There were people on board the plane who were in communication with loved ones who were watching the the events in NY on TV. When they began to piece together the strong possibility that their own plane was intended to be a terrorist bomb, they charged the hi-jackers who apparently crashed the plane. At the same time, the President did give an order that any plane in the air that day which refused to follow commands to land was to be shot down. If memory serves me, that order was given after the PA plane had already crashed.

Yes. Both Time magazine and Newsweek had extensive, detailed, and well-illustrated articles in the weeks after 9-11 which explained the structure of the WTC and why it came down the way it did. Your local public library is sure to have these in file.

 

I know it wasn't part of question, but I'll throw 2¢ in anyway. Taking out Al Qaeda for the attacks is fair enough. Taking out the Taliban for supporting them, and Saddam for possible links to them is fair enough too. But doing all of the above supposedly out of concern for the people under these regimes..gimme a break. The Taliban & Saddam would still be business as usual if it wasn't for the W.T.C. attack.

Now I have that off my chest again...

Maybe a combination of shock and the car crash syndrome. Something like that happens and everyone just stands and watches. Also after the towers survived the initial impacts a lot of people would have probably been thinking they would have stayed up.

The tower falls did look a bit clinical, however these links explain how it happened: LINK, LINK

I just read a site that suggested something else, but even I am not cynical enough to buy their line so won't advertise

The other buildings (eg W.T.C. 7) were mentioned on TV and in papers down this way now and then, however most of the focus was on the towers.

As swaimj said, the passengers on that plane heard of the events at the W.T.C. and took action. There is a book called "Lets Roll" on the topic in Christian bookshop.

Between the 4 planes crashing and all other planes being grounded, anything in the air was being reported on news as another possible attack.

Pete

 

Gina as I understand it, the heat was so intense because of the jet fuel being ignited, that the steel supporters lost their integrity. That's why the building fell the way it did. Furthermore, Osama Bin Ladin knew this would happen and that is why it was attacked in this way.

I saw a documentary that followed the NYFD during the attack. It was very powerful. It was done by two French brothers who happened to be doing a documentary on the Fire Department. They just happened to be at the right place at the right time to film this footage.

I don't know how many people died on the outside by falling debris. It was shocking to see them staring up instead of moving. I think they were dumstruck. I think when ever anything surreal happens people generally react this way.

 

Gina: "Also, they didn't fall right for what happened.
Even if the supports buckled it wouldn't have
imploded and fallen so evenly. It wouldn't have
gone completely down that fast unless it was being
attacked from the inside, as in bombs going off
on different floors or the structure somehow
previously weakened significantly."

Your statement is untrue. The towers collapsed
exactly consistant with being rammed near the
top. The collapse was from the point of impact
going down. Had structures been weakened before
the plane impact or real-time (during the fire),
the collapse would have run from the bottom up.

Gina: "Has anyone ever analyzed how the towers fell
and explained why it looked that way?"

Yes. The towers collapsed due to the
fuel laden planes which crashed into them.

 

Has anyone ever analyzed how the towers fell and explained why it looked that way?

Only in immense detail. As previously stated, the towers lost their integrity due to the intense heat generated by the burning jet fuel. Additionally, the sheer force of a fully laden jet hitting the buildings severely compromised the fire retardent coating that covers the steel structure. But in addition, the design of these buildings allowed the weight of the buildings to be carried by the outer walls of the building, instead of a central core. It still had a core, but the center was considerablly smaller in size thanks to the external load-bearing capacity. This allowed the amount of floor space to be considerably greater, making the building more user friendly.

When the buildings were hit, they compromised the outer load bering capacity of the towers. But that wasn't all:

Even with parts of the outer wall missing, the weight was easily redistributed via the floor system of steel panels. However, over time, the floors began to fail, one by one, due to the longterm intense heat. But in addition to that:

The shock of the planes made the fire retardent coating on the steel useless. But that's not all:

The heat from the burning fuel caused a chemical change in the steel, thus compromising their intergrity. But it wasn't just the temperature of the fire, it was also the heat.

The buildings were designed to withstand an accidental impact from a plan. But these planes were fully laden with fuel, something that would not occur in an accident. There is no tecnnology that would have prevented the buildings from falling after the impact.

As to why the buildings fell in a straight line, rather than fall over, the outer supports of the building remained unhit by the impact. When the structure gave way, it did in a very specific pattern which continued to distribute the weight evenly throughout the building (even when collapsing, the building was distributing weight they way it was designed to).

We tend not to think of praising God in this situation, but had Yamasaki not designed the buildings to distribute weight so evenly, they would have fallen over, resulting in thousands of additional deaths. Let's give thanks to God for that fact.

 

Good post JohnV.