Dan wrote in news:zU7Sf.62063$Ug4.53088@dukeread12:

Orval Fairbairn wrote:
In article ,
TRUTH wrote:


Perhaps to learn clues to prevent a complete, freefall "fire
induced" collapse from happening again, especially since:

It never happened before, but on 9/11 it happened three times. An
executive in the WTC Management said in his opinion the Towers could
withstand multiple 707 impacts, and compared it to a pencil
puncturing a screen netting. Firefighters made it up to the impact
area of the South Tower and suggested nothing major.

And -- White Star proclaimed the Titanic to be "unsinkable", too.


Not to mention WTC management were business types not engineers and
thus were not in a position to provide an educated opinion such as
that.


One of the people who said it was a WTC design engineer. (I'm pretty
sure)





I know WTC was designed to withstand a fully fueled and loaded 707
strike, but multiples? I dunno, I doubt it. It's irrelevant anyway
since a single 767 strike is different than multiple strikes by 707 or
any other aircraft. The fact remains the buildings were not designed
to withstand a 767 strike simply because 767 didn't exist at the time
the requirement was made.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired



Whether that's true or not, an argument cannot be made in that manner.