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PamelaDrew on Nostr: This Empire State Building event of an airplane flying into NYC skyscraper forever ...

This Empire State Building event of an airplane flying into NYC skyscraper forever changed building codes to withstand impact by aircraft.. including ALL buildings at WTC the two hit & WTC7 that had freefall collapse in sympathy to WTC 1&2 struck.

Twin Towers' Designers Anticipated Jet Impacts Like September 11th's - According to Hyman Brown, a University of Colorado civil engineering professor and the World Trade Center's construction manager, 1 and 2 World Trade Center were designed to survive an impact and resulting fires from a collision by the largest commercial aircraft at the time, a Boeing 707-340. 1 Contrary to widely promoted misconceptions, the 767-200s used on 9-11 were only slightly larger than 707s. https://web.archive.org/web/20031209185213/https://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/design.html