On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 23:45:20 -0400, you wrote:
>"After the 1993 trade center bombing, one of the engineers who worked on the
>towers' structural design in the 1960's claimed that each one had been built to
>withstand the impact of a fully loaded, fully fueled Boeing 707, then the
>heaviest aircraft flying."
It wasn't the impact that collapsed the building, it was the heat from
the burning fuel. They say it got to over 1600 degrees and melted the
steel frame.
If the fuel hadn't caught fire, the buildings would still be standing.
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