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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Doug R who wrote (14947)9/6/2006 8:44:13 PM
From: TigerPaw  Respond to of 20039
 
WTC7, from the onset of collapse, fell 100 meters in 4.7 seconds.

No matter how many times you type that, it just isn't so.

WTC7 fell at a rate comfortably less than "free fall in a vaccum". It is even likely that it didn't fall the total height of the building. The collapse of WTC7 most likely began on about the 8th floor as the debris that damaged WTC was mostly flung over the WTC6 building and consentrated the damage just above the height of that 6 story building. That means the building had 80 feet less to fall, before it continued on to crush the remaining 8 floors.

TP