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wpot posted...

Ah yes, terrorists who sacrifice their lives and kill hundreds to highlight structural design flaws: makes perfect sense.

It was the basis of the second WTC attack planning, after the bombing in the nineties (had it been larger or in the right place, the entire complex would have come down then) they looked at the math and determined that a plane with most of its full reserves, flying into a sufficiently tall enough building, between 1/3 to a 1/4 of the way from the top, will cause enough structural damage to cause a catastrophic failure.

There are several factors that led to the unprecedented pancake collapse of the complex, but it is likely that it is repeatable with the right buildings. We kind of ignore and gloss over the reasons for the complete collapse of the entire complex or how vulnerable we are from a dedicated individual.