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Gabrielle Cusumano on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:34:12 PM
"Elements of the myth: the impact of the airplanes, gallons of burning jet fuel, steel melting, the buildings failing and suddenly imploding. In a mere 10 seconds, 110 stories hurtled earthward -- pulverizing into dust."
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This is absolutely true, and a little hard to believe. Jane Standley of the BBC reports live on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 while the 47-story skyscraper remains visible through the window behind her. Visible and standing upright ... its actual collapse occurring some 15 minutes later. Was this script written in advance because news stations had been told what was going to happen? Most Americans never heard of Building 7, and to this day don't know it was the third of three skyscrapers to collapse due to "fire" on 9/11. See this archived footage (at approx 14:00 min) |
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9/11 MYSTERIES PART 1: DEMOLITIONS - NARRATOR’S SCRIPT
1 Brad:
“My name is Brad and I’m a conservative Republican. Last summer I happened to come across a video on the Internet about the World Trade Center demolition on September 11th. As a kind of “demolition hobbyist,” I downloaded it and watched it. The title was “Painful Deceptions,” by aguy called Eric Hufschmid. The video made me very angry. I was determined to prove themaker of the video wrong.
I purchased videos about 9/11 from CBS and PBS Nova, including one made by the Naudet
brothers. These were considered the “official videos.” After watching them carefully, and after
researching thousands of websites and archives on the Internet -- literally not sleeping for an
entire week -- I realized that official story, not Eric Hufschmid’s “Painful Deceptions,” was
unprovable, unsubstantiated, absolutely wrong.
What you are about to see is information you should already know. Our news reporters,
government and media should have made all this material available to every one of us. Ask
yourself why you’ve never seen it.”
THE MYTH
1:54 On September 11th, we learned 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.
2:20 Dazed by the news, the American public soon believed the fires in the towers had
burned so hot they caused the steel frames of the buildings to give way.
2:38 A myth developed, fed by official sources through the media to a bewildered audience.
Elements of the myth: the impact of the airplanes, gallons of burning jet fuel, steel
melting, the buildings failing and suddenly imploding. In a mere 10 seconds, 110 stories
hurtled earthward -- pulverizing into dust.
3:12 Eyewitnesses on street: “…we ran to the window…”
3:14 Right from the start, on the street itself, the official story was born:
3:19 Eyewitness on street: “…come out of nowhere and just reamed right into the side of the
Twin Tower, exploding through the other side, and then I witnessed both towers collapse
-- one first and then the second -- mostly due to structural failure because the fire was
just too intense.”
3:35 The myth bled into the FEMA report ... and was echoed by the experts.
Text: “While it was impossible for the fuel-rich, diffuse-flame fire to burn at a
temperature high enough to melt the steel, its quick ignition and intense heat caused the
steel to lose at least half its strength and to deform, causing buckling or crippling. This
weakening and deformation caused a few floors to fall, while the weight of the stories
above them crushed the floors below, initiating a domino collapse.”
3:55 John Skilling and Les E. Robertson were the structural engineers who designed the
streamlined steel frames of the Twin Towers in the 1960s. Because a wayward army
bomber flew into the Empire State Building in 1945, the towers were built with
skyscraper crashes in mind.
4:19 Les E. Robertson: “The airplane we were envisioning was the largest airplane of its
time, flying slowly and low, lost in the fog. We designed the buildings to take the impact
of the Boeing 707, hitting the building at any location.”
4:36 Official Story narrator “But the aircraft that hit the towers was a Boeing 767, heavier
than a 707, fueled for a transcontinental flight and traveling fast.”
4:48 707s and 767s are comparable. The maximum take-off weight of a fully loaded 707 is
almost 334,000 pounds. As airplanes only carry the fuel load they need, the
smaller-model 767s that struck the towers were not, in actuality, maximally fueled OR
close to their maximum take-off weight.
5:13 As for the heat of the fires, listen to the radio communications of these New York City
firemen:
5:20 Firefighter: “Ladder One-Five, we’ve got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able
to knock it down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor -- we’ve got two isolated pockets
of fire…”
Text: Ladder 15, we’ve got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it
down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor… Two isolated pockets of fire.
5:32 Isolated pockets of fire. “Two water lines” to knock them down.
5:38 FEMA’s Executive Summary relays that much of the fuel in the planes (jet-grade
kerosene) was consumed by the initial fireballs and the following few minutes of fire.
5:51 It then tells us that the burning jet fuel spread between floors and ignited the buildings’
contents, causing more fire and generating heat. This was somehow enough to bring
down the towers’ 47-column steel core, 236 exterior columns and thousands of steel
trusses all at the same time.
6:15 Watch the towers smoking in the aftermath of the plane strikes.
6:20 If you have ever tried to light a wood fire, you will know that smoking logs tell you the fire
is NOT burning successfully. Smoke is the sign of an oxygen-starved fire. The Twin
Towers stood for over an hour, smouldering but not flaming. During that time, thousands
of people were evacuated by way of the stairwells.
6:43 Others, trapped by debris, stood in the smoke-filled windows and signaled for help.
6:51 In fact, the towers did what they were built to do.
6:55 Frank A. De Martini: “The building was designed to have a fully loaded 707 crash into it
-- that was the largest plane at the time. I believe that the building probably could
sustain multiple impacts of jetliners because this structure is like the mosquito netting on
your screen door -- this intense grid -- and the jet plane is just a pencil puncturing that
screen netting -- it really does nothing to the screen netting.”
7:33 The towers were built to withstand 140-mile-an-hour gusts produced by winter storms.
Anyone in them on a windy day could feel them swaying. The single impact of a jetliner
was no more of a blow than the continued battering of a hurricane.
7:58 Eyewitness: “I was just putting my stuff away and all of the sudden we heard a loud
crash -- and the building started shaking, kind of moving like a wave…”
8:05 New Yorkers were stunned, one hour later, when the first tower fell.
8:13 Les E. Robertson: “To the best of my knowledge, the considerations of the fuel in the
airplane -- in terms of an explosion or a great fire -- was not considered. Now … we
were not responsible for that aspect of the design...”
8:27 Imagine – building expressly for airplane impact, but never thinking of the fuel.
STEEL BUILDINGS
8:41 Never before in the history of the world has a steel building collapsed due to fire.
8:50 Jonathan R. Barnett, Ph.D.: “I have not seen until recently a protected steel structure
that has collapsed in a fire.”
8:54 True infernos have raged hot and long in steel-framed buildings, but not one of the
buildings ever came down.
9:07 In 1975, the World Trade Center’s North Tower suffered a nighttime fire that flamed for
three hours, spreading vertically from floor to floor. It burned twice as long as the fires of
9/11, without even a hint of a building collapse.
9:20 In February 2005, the Windsor Tower in Madrid, a skyscraper undergoing
reconstruction, sustained a 20-hour fire. This is what was left -- a standing building
strong enough to support a crane.
9:40 Compare a 20-hour inferno to 90 minutes of smoke.
9:52 Why are buildings made of steel? Strong, light and flexible, steel frames offer many
advantages over wood and concrete, especially where skyscrapers are concerned.
Steel makes big buildings relatively light, with tremendous load-bearing capacity. The
upper floors won’t crush the floors beneath them, and steel holds up better to weather
and fire.
WTC DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
Paul Goldberger: “Most skyscrapers are built on steel or concrete frames, which is a
grid of columns and beams that goes all the way through the building. The World Trade
Center was different. It was what engineers call a “tube structure”. It was a very very
strong mesh of steel that surrounded the exterior.”
10:46 Inside, there was the core. A rectangle of 47 columns made of 4-inch-thick steel at the
base, thinning with increasing height, the cores combined might with ingenuity –
anchoring the towers and allowing them to flex. Look at the size of this steel.
11:12 Solid, pre-fabricated floor assemblies -- welded metal floor pans placed on top of
trusses both welded AND bolted to the vertical frames.
11:28 The story we were told: This rock-like steel grid gave way because fire warped the
trusses, causing the bolts to fail. As the trusses sagged and fell, the floors dropped with
them.
11:42 In its 2002 documentary “Why the Towers Fell,” PBS creates a video model.
11:54 PBS Narrator: “Once the trusses failed, the floors they were holding cascade down with
a force too great to be withstood. The result is what’s called a progressive collapse, as
each floor pancakes down on the one below.”
12:05 What remains standing? The tall, indestructible core. Why does PBS fail to explain the
complete disappearance of the Twin Towers’ cores?
12:20 Text: Where are the cores at Ground Zero?
12:20 The official story’s central thesis is based on heat -- temperatures high enough to
weaken steel. But people in the towers did not report such heat. Think about it --
neither steel, concrete, nor glass can burn. So what, in those buildings, could have
burned to make such heat?
12:43 How do these firefighters describe the collapse of the North Tower?
12:52 Firefighter 1: “We started running… Floor by floor, it started popping out…”
Firefighter 2: “It was as if they had detonators.”
Firefighter 1: “Yeah, detonators, yeah…”
Firefighter 2: “As if they planned to take down a building. Boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom!”
Firefighter 1: “All the way down. I was watching it and running.”
12:58 And others give similar descriptions:
13:06 News reporter: “At 10:30 I tried to leave the building, but as soon as I got outside I
heard a second explosion and another rumble and more smoke and more dust -- and
then a fire marshall came in and said we had to leave because if there was a third
explosion, this building might not last.”
13:23 Man in a hospital bed: “…like, it sounded like gunfire. You know -- bang, bang, bang,
bang, bang! And then all of the sudden three big explosions…”
13:29 Man on street: “…started walking down the stairs to the 8th floor -- big explosion -- blew
us back into the 8th floor…”
13:33 News reporter: “Do you know if it was an explosion or if it was a building collapse?”
Police officer: “To me, it sounded like an explosion”
News reporter: “…but it was a huge explosion…”
13:44 Pat Dawson, NBC News: “Chief Albert Turi told me that he was here after the events
that took place this morning. He tried to get his men out as quickly as he could, but he
said that there was another explosion which took place ... and then an hour after, there
was another explosion in one of the towers here. So, according to his theory, he thinks
there were actually devices that were planted in the building.”
14:02 Reports of bombs in the buildings, explosions. A CBS reporter to Dan Rather:
14:16 Carol Marin, CBS News: “…but I was coming toward the World Trade Center looking for
CBS crews, and asked a firefighter if he saw any. All of the sudden there was a roll, an
explosion, and we could see coming at us a ball of flame stories high.”
14:28 Listen to the sound of a large explosion right before the South Tower begins to fall.
14:46 Sound reaches us after what we see. If the “boom” we just heard was the sound of the
building collapsing, it would FOLLOW the collapse. Instead, the “boom” is heard before.
15:04 [voice of Dylan Avery:] “Ho, whoa, whoa -- bring it back…”
FACTS ABOUT STEEL
15:15 Let’s consider the characteristics of steel. Steel is an alloy of iron, containing added
carbon for flexibility, workability and strength. In the days of old, blacksmiths heated iron
till it was red and pounded it for hours to form it. Horseshoes, knife blades and
plowshares were typical creations. Steel was introduced in the mid-1800s and, by the
end of the century, with the advent of the blast furnace, found widespread commercial
use. A blast furnace is known as a “controlled environment” – high temperatures are
reached as oxygen is pumped into a closed space.
15:58 How and when does steel melt? Steel melts at temperatures of 2750 degrees
Fahrenheit and above, attained ONLY in a blast furnace or when a powerful incendiary
such as thermite is used. Steel, or any substance that is burned, will never become
hotter than the temperature of the fire or heat applied to it.
16:24 An open-air hydrocarbon fire reaches a maximal temperature of some 1200 degrees
Fahrenheit in a “dirty” or “uncontrolled” burn -- characterized by red-orange flames.
16:37 Red-orange flames are what we saw on September 11th. Even the fireball caused by
the plane strike was red-orange.
16:54 A “controlled burn” falls between a “dirty burn” (like a fireplace) and a “controlled
environment” (the blast furnace). A “controlled burn” employs a regulated mix of air and
fuel – an example being your gas stove or the engine in your car.
17:12 You can fire up your gas stove all day long -- making soup, roasting a duck or simmering
a stew. Made of steel, your stove will not melt ... and nor will your pots and pans.
17:25 This is a kerosene heater, designed for use in any ordinary house. The heater runs on
jet-grade kerosene, contained in this tank. Made of steel, the heater can operate all
night and all day. The kerosene fumes ignite and burn inside it, never causing even the
smallest part of this heater to weaken or melt.
17:49 Yet we were led to believe that these tremendous buildings, framed in steel and
surfaced in aluminum, totally collapsed from small, scattered fires and 90 minutes of
smoke. Take note of these hurtling beams, thrown laterally outward as the tower comes
to earth. Would fire have the strength to eject such huge hunks of metal?
18:12 MIT engineering professor Thomas Eagar’s 2001 paper is officially considered the
academic standard for explaining the World Trade Center collapses. In it he tells us that
steel loses half its strength at 650 degrees Celsius, and that the fires that day did not get
much hotter than this. He stresses, however, that the fires did not burn evenly.
18:40 It was the uneven temperatures that caused the steel to deform and some of the floors
to fail. These falling floors brought down the whole building.
Text: “While it was impossible for the fuel-rich, diffuse-flame fire to burn at a
temperature high enough to melt the steel, its quick ignition and intense heat caused the
steel to lose at least half its strength and to deform, causing buckling or crippling. This
weakening and deformation caused a few floors to fall, while the weight of the stories
above them crushed the floors below, initiating a domino collapse.”
19:16 In plain language, straight from MIT:
(bulleted text) Fires not hot enough to melt steel
Uneven fires deformed some of the steel
Some floors fell – smashing the entire building
Dr. Eagar ... what happened to the core?
19:41 What do falling buildings look like?
19:46 What do demolitions look like?
19:56 We are seeing typical implosions, characterized by gutting a building’s base and then
pulling it into itself. Computer-controlled sequencing fires the explosives in a rapid wave.
Notice the jets of shooting concrete, the flashes, the pops ... the caving of the buildings
as they fall into their footprint ... the tremendous, billowing clouds of dust.
20:31 Now let’s look at the collapse of the Twin Towers:
20:44 We are seeing explosions, rather than implosions -- a first in demolition history. A
sequenced rumble becomes a roar as debris is thrown outward:
20:59 The damage is not contained. Even the windows are blown from neighborhood
buildings.
21:07 What kind of energy enabled this? Would fire hurl metal and concrete sideways into the
air?
21:15 Here, a 600,000-pound chunk of steel (twice the weight of a Boeing airliner) was flung
400 feet, wedging itself deep into Three World Financial Center on Vesey Street.
21:31 A FEMA photographer taking pictures of Ground Zero wondered why so MANY steel
beams were jutting from neighborhood buildings. What shot pieces of the towers all the
way across the street?
21:51 In April 2006 New Yorkers were distressed to learn that bone fragments – human
remains from 9/11 – had been found on the roof of the nearby Deutsche Bank building.
22:09 First New Yorker: “And how in God’s name did those fragments get there?”
22:14 Second New Yorker: “It surprised me that there was still bone fragments -- or human
remains -- that had not been discovered.”
22:17 Third New Yorker: “How is it possible that after five years they are finally looking on the
rooftop of the Deutsche building? I mean, that’s crazy.”
22:22 And bone fragments less than a centimeter long. How could they be so SMALL?
22:30 So much to be explained. Why did the South Tower fall first, when it was the second
tower to be hit?
22:40 Watch the top third of Tower 2 leaning outward, about to topple. Then -- suddenly -- it
disintegrates in mid-air. What causes this giant slab of steel and concrete to turn into
dust before our eyes?
23:07 Watch both buildings collapsing straight down – directly INTO the path of MOST
RESISTANCE – which is all the floors and all the mass of the building itself.
23:25 The World Trade Center Towers came down in approximately 10 seconds. Seismic data
from Columbia University puts the North Tower collapse at about 8 seconds and the
South Tower at approximately 10. Lynn Simpson, a survivor from the 89th floor of the
North Tower, describes the sight:
23:48 Lynn Simpson: “And I saw the Trade Center literally collapse in upon itself floor by floor
by floor -- and it took seconds for it to happen. It was a massive building, and it just
pancaked.”
24:40 Here the South Tower is half its original height, but wreckage from the upper collapse
has not yet fallen this far. We are watching a demolition moving faster than gravity itself
... a building burst
24:00 10 seconds. These are 110-story buildings, coming to earth at free-fall speed – the rate
at which an object drops through air. The lower floors would need to give way
completely as the floors above them fell. Can a person walk through a closed door as
quickly and smoothly as one that is open?
24:23 A 10-second collapse means the upper floors encountered no resistance from the
undamaged floors beneath them. Watch the demolition wave rushing straight down.
24:40 Here the South Tower is half its original height, but wreckage from the upper collapse
has not yet fallen this far. We are watching a demolition moving faster than gravity itself
... a building bursting into powder from top to bottom.
25:03 Here, the core of the North Tower finally gives up. 700 remaining feet of giant steel
columns, among the strongest ever erected. What force acts upon the core to make it
all of a sudden disappear?
25:23 Eric Hufschmid, author of the book “Painful Questions,” is a metal-cutting software
engineer.
Eric Hufschmid: “The floors of the World Trade Center towers were a three-dimensional
mesh of steel beams. You have to keep in mind now, the floor is about an acre in size --
there are thousands of joints all over it. In order for the floor to fall down, thousands of
joints would have to break simultaneously. So then, if you look at the speed at which this
came down -- less then ten seconds -- you blink your eye and thousand of joints just
popped somehow. The only way you can explain that is with explosives. They had to
have had explosives placed all over the floors at the primary joints, and then that would
explain how all of the joints broke at such a rapid rate.
The debris was crashing from one floor to the next. Debris cannot crash through steel
and concrete floors as fast as it falls through the air -- and there was no slowing.
Explosives had to be breaking the joints ahead of the falling rubble, which is why the top
half starts off collapsing slowly and then it starts picking up speed…”
26:38 This is a pancake collapse:
26:44 Why don’t we see piles of floors at Ground Zero?
26:52 And paper blown everywhere. Wouldn’t a pancake collapse have trapped the contents
inside? What blew this paper all over New York?
27:04 If you were to drop a billiard ball from the top of the Twin Towers, it would hit the ground
in just over 9 seconds, the average time it took for the towers to fall. Helped by gravity
and falling through air, the ball will GAIN SPEED.
27:22 The calculation for a “pure” pancake collapse of 110 stories, with each floor pulverizing
to get out of the way, is 96 seconds. In the real world, with the floors creating
resistance, a pancake collapse would LOSE speed – never would it GAIN speed.
PRE-COLLAPSE SUB-BASEMENT EXPLOSIONS
27:52 The airplanes struck the towers high above the ground. But down in the lobby of the
North Tower, marble facing flew off the walls -- the windows shattered, all the glass
blown out.
28.14 Narrator: “Right away, a guy from the Port Authority told them the damage was
somewhere above the 78th floor, but all you had to do was look around. It was obvious,
something had happen right there in the lobby.”
Firefighter 1: “And you just saw … all the windows were blown out.”
Firefighter 2: “The lobby looked like the plane hit the lobby.”
28:38 “Like the plane hit the lobby.” What caused so much wreckage in the lobby?
28:36 William Rodriguez, a maintenance employee at the World Trade Center and the last
human being to exit the towers alive, describes a giant blast below his building.
28:47 William Rodriguez: “…and all of the sudden we heard an explosion. It was a huge
explosion that came from under my feet, meaning that it came from the sub-levels
between B2 and B3, and there was a huge explosion at the top of the building.”
Voice of office worker at 1 Liberty Plaza: “What the heck was that?”
William Rodriguez: “You could hear the difference from the bottom and all the way
through the top. The one from the top -- which was actually seconds after -- was heard
very far away. The one at the basement was pretty loud, and you felt your actual feet
moving with the floor. The tremor that is sent through the floors -- the walls cracked and
the false ceiling totally collapsed, and that’s when a person name Felipe David came
running into our office saying, ‘Explosion! Explosion! Explosion!’ And when I saw him,
he has all his skin pulled from under his armpits and missing pieces on his face.”
29:43 An explosion deep down in the tower, BEFORE the plane crash 95 floors above.
29:50 Others lived to report enormous explosions below the towers. Construction worker
Phillip Morelli was in North Tower Sub-basement 4 at the time of the first plane strike.
Phillip Morelli: “I go downstairs. The foreman tells me to go to remove the containers.
As I’m walking by the main freight car of the building, in the corridor -- that’s, that’s when
I got blown. I mean the impact of the explosion -- of whatever happened -- it threw me to
the floor -- and that’s when everything started happening"
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