How’s planes took down the first tower
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My beef is
Planes are built to be light
Buildings are meant to stand strong
The plane would damage the building no doubt (asymmetrically)
but much of the fuel would burn very quickly
and a weakened structure would not collapse that completely at near free fall speed into it's own footprint
Airplanes are built to be as light as they can be, but a 767-200 fully loaded at impact would still weigh 157.5 tons. Buildings are strong enough to withstand a collision with such an airplane---but not to withstand the buckling resulting from the fuel burn diminishing the strength of the steel by factors greater than the structural margin. And when there is any collapse, the downward momentum and shock force of the upper stories would cause each successive layer of columns to buckle immediately. So, yes, it would collapse that completely and into its own footprint. There is no force acting to push it outside of its footprint.
Are you an aeronautical engineer? Are you a structures engineer? Don't make summary conclusions when you don't know what you are talking about.
Same clap trap wrapped in an appeal to authority that I've been hearing for 20 years...
Still don't buy it.
That's because you can't tell good from bad...and have no engineering education.