Comment on Would it be possible to model 9/11 using hot dogs for the planes?
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
What level of accuracy are you looking for? The towers weren’t destroyed by the jets; they punched holes in the side and damaged the overall structural integrity while starting massive fires and causing glass to shatter.
The towers were demolished after the fact via controlled explosive charges because they were no longer safe to enter.
bearoftheisle@europe.pub 1 week ago
Source on that? Wikipedia seems to say that they suffered a progressive collapse on their own in part because of structural damage from the hits, in part from fires heating the steel supports enough to seriously weaken them.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I watched the plane crash into the building, then witnessed through media reports the cleanup and demolition?
There was definite structural damage, as I said, but the impact didn’t bring the towers down.
What Wikipedia says doesn’t disagree with that.