ThePackLeader Wrote:
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> Here's the best example of such:
>
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> A WWII, U.S. Army Air Corps B-25 Bomber crashed
> into the Empire State Building during extremely
> foggy weather, in 1945.
>
> Alas, the buildings are completely different in
> terms of construction (Regarding the World Trade
> Center vs. the Empire State Building). Yet, notice
> how similar the billowing flames and smoke appear
> in both instances.
The WTC towers had no internal columns. All the load was on the outside of the building. When the jets ripped through the exterior wall, it shifted a disproportionate amount of the load onto the remaining exterior walls. The reason why the second building hit fell first was because the impact was lower on the building...meaning that there was even more load on the remaining walls because of the number of floors above the impact area added significantly more weight.
The Empire State building was different for several reasons. First, the building has internal supporting columns, so the weight was spread more evenly across the remaining structure. Second, the impact was much higher on the Empire State Building, compared to the WTC towers, so there was less of a load being shifted around. Third, the bomber was most likely a much lighter plane than the jetliners that hit WTC. Fourth, the bomber was moving at a much slower velocity than the jets. And finally, the bomber most likely carried gasoline, not hotter burning jet fuel.
So, they still aren't really comparable.
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