On September 11, 2001 four passenger commercial jet airliners were hijacked and as a result approximately 3,000 human lives were lost. When asked about 9/11, many can recall exactly what they were doing when they heard the news that a plane crashed into one of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings and many Americans can tell you how it all unfolded and the reason behind such a travesty. The “official story” provided by officials, and restated by Sofia Shafquat, producer of “9/11 Mysteries: Demolitions” say that “four passenger planes were hijacked and taken radically off course, within an hour, two of the planes had flown into the enormous steel towers of the World Trade Center, creating fires and eventually toppling them” (Shafquat). …show more content…
Dr. Steven Jones, a well known physicist and archaeometrist, disagrees; he admits that this could not have been possible due to the laws of physics (28). He claims a delay would be expected between each dropped floor, taking longer for the building to collapse. Shafquat reinforces Jones’s and uses the computer claim by stating that “pancake floors would lose speed.” Jones discusses the idea that the buildings collapsed due to controlled demolition. He states:
No steel-beam high-rise had ever before (or since) completely collapsed due to fires! However, such complete and nearly symmetrical collapses in tall steel-frame buildings have occurred many times before—all of them due to pre-positioned explosives in a procedure called “implosion” or controlled demolition. (22)
Jones uses the theory that a series of “shock and awe” explosions coupled with the use of thermite-incendiaries accounts for the towers falling into fine dust instead of pilling up shattering floors of concrete, which is what one might expect from a non-explosive collapse (28). These two ideas are definitely debatable and should be explored for more evidence. In addition to how the towers fell, we must understand the properties of steel. Because the Twin Towers were built from steel and capable of
Many people believe jet fuel can melt steel and others, like myself don’t. The documentary focuses on numerous buildings on fire for more than 17 hours and they still stayed standing, the structure didn’t even weaken. No fire, however severe, has ever caused a steel-framed high-rise building to collapse. The World Trade Centre was what engineers call a “tube” structure, it was made of a very strong mesh of steel. The construction manager of the World Trade Center said he designed the towers to “stand even if a fully loaded 707 crashed into it” which was the largest plane at the time. Before the 9/11 attack, fires had previously occurred in one of the towers, for 3 hours but there wasn’t any structural
It has been 16 years and we have yet to hear a case where skyscrapers collapse in the same manner that the twin towers did. Insiders have reported that the Twin Towers design was constructed so that smaller floors were on top, so how could the smaller floors destroy the bigger floors below them just by fire? In his book titled 9/11: The Simple Facts: Why the Official Story Can’t Possibly Be True, Arthur Naiman states two undeniable facts. First, he makes the statement that “Nothing ever falls into the path of greatest resistance.” Within this claim, Arthur compares the twin towers to a tree. If the top of a tree were to catch fire and burn directly downward through the trunk it may seem plausible. The twin towers contained over 80,000 tons of steel, which is way denser, making it impossible for the towers to fall evenly. His second claim is that “Fires don’t suddenly destroy entire buildings evenly and completely.” He supports this claim by stating that only artificial fires would burn an entire building symmetrically. Given that natural fires leave some objects out, not everything is destroyed. These inconsistencies are crucial in the explanation of the 9/11 conspiracy because they avoid using just theory, actual facts are presented that avoid
The construction of the Skyline Plaza in Fairfax County came to a halt early in the afternoon on March 2, 1973. It was originally speculated by the workers on site that the crane assisting in lifting materials to the higher sections of the building failed and fell into the side of the building causing the collapse. However, Author Dov Kaminetsky conducted research alongside the National Bereau of Standards(NBS), and published his book, Design and Construction: Lessons from Forensic Investigations.[2] Kaminetsky provides the conclusion of NBS 's investigation that the collapse was a result of shear construction error. The building began to collapse as construction workers proceeded to remove the concrete shoring between the middle sector of the building, specifically the 22nd and 23rd floor. The shoring process requires the placement of a concrete structure to support a building while under construction to prevent the collapse of the operation. The result of the collapse took the lives of 14 construction workers and 35 other individuals near the building. With proper critique to policies and evaluation of work orders, further disasters may be prevented in the future in the United States. So how did theinvestigationn of the
“The (WTC) collapse appeared to be similar to a controlled demolition” (Thomas, 07/08/2011). Many speculated that the towers were in fact blown down with explosives placed in selected locations. Some witnesses accounted hearing explosions inside the building as they attempted to escape the building. Many architects and scientists maintain that jet fuel cannot produce enough heat to melt the steel frame of the two buildings. There were no planes to hit building 7 of the trade center, but it was demolished in the same fashion as the twin towers were.
After the explosion caused many buildings to collapse, people had to clear out the debris and the remains of the building.
One of the most substantial conspiracy theories was how the towers fell and why. This theory has largely emerged due to the fact it looked like a controlled demolition.
Many news reporters stated that the reasoning behind the building’s collapse was due to the small, contained fire inside the Building. If this was true, that marked the first day in history that a building with a steel frame ever fell due to flames. If you’re not following me yet, just picture this: just as the handle of a frying pan doesn’t get hot at the same rate of speed as the part over the fire, the steel work on the Building near the fire could not have triggered the whole building’s steel structure to collapse. Steel buildings are known to continue to hold their structure through fires. Hence the reasoning behind why so many firemen died on 9/11, because they
The World Trade Centers’ fell in a way that has never occurred by a normal melting of the core. According to the U.S. media, “the combined heat from the fuel and combustion caused the cores of the towers to melt, and therefore collapse” (Feuer). But as many know, a building can only collapse straight-down, when explosives are put in place. If the heat really did melt the cores, the towers would have collapsed to a side, instead of crumbling down. Many videos from 9-11 show that the concrete is jutting outwards of the building as it falls. Yet, that only occurs when explosives cause this to happen (Williamson). Some of the floors are seen to explode before the top floors crashed. This adds to the theory that there was demolition in the towers and that this demolition detonated earlier than it was supposed to.
There are two main theories on how the towers fell. One is that the weakened steel structure caused floor trusses to sag, which led to the floor collapsing, then flattening floors beneath, causing a domino effect.
The explanation that the towers were brought down primarily by the fires is a bit hard to believe. Merely due to the fact that a steel building has never collapsed as a result of a fire. MIT engineering professors, Thomas Eagar and Christopher Musso, argue that the Twin Towers were brought down by the fires that had ignited throughout the floors. The fires are said to have burned at uneven temperatures that were hot enough to distort the steel and cause it to lose its structural integrity. Due to the distortion of the steel, the joints on the severely burned floors gave way, causing the perimeter columns to bow outward and the floors above them to fall (Eager and Musso 5). This in turn
When anyone searches about Building 7 of the World Trade Center in Google, he\she will be shocked. There are some websites that are dedicated to prove their points of view on the collapse of the building 7. One of the websites that comes out when the research is done is
Building collapse has been proposed as the most important risk factor for fatality in building bombings [87], and residents and responders are at risk following an incident. When the twin towers of the WTC collapsed, over 400 emergency responders lost their
When you have buildings that fall to the ground you often have a lot of questions and don’t know where to start the process of questioning the people that were directly involved with the construction of the towers. Yet even those who worked to build the towers were stuck looking at each other because they had no idea how what occurred with the falling of the towers could have happened. The architects who built the towers were on tape to testify against the reports. The towers were built to withstand the impact of more than one airliner. Yet Frank De Martini, (WTC construction manager) said with the attacks there was not enough damage caused to the structures to force any type of collapse especially in the manor that they did.
People believe that the September 11th collapse of the World Trade Centre’s Twin Tower was not completely due to airliners crashing into both towers. Some people believe that the crash and fires within the building that followed, were not the sole cause to the eventual collapse of both towers.
The catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center complex is said by government reports to have resulted from structural failure due mainly to fires initiated by the impacts of the airplanes. A closer look at the evidence reveals a much more disturbing crime.Apart from the fact that no steel-framed high-rise building has ever collapsed due to fire prior to or since Sept. 11, the manner in which the buildings came down is itself a substantial cause for reinvestigation. A collapse due to fire would likely proceed gradually with large deformations visible in the building’s perimeter, with the building tipping over slowly in the direction of the steadily weakening structural members – to the path of least resistance.