Re: Structural failure of NY's WTC

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 08:08 9/17/01 -0600, you wrote:
> Any speculation on whether the hijackers anticipated the total collapse of
> the towers?
>
> Larry

There has been public commentary on NPR maybe, else a major newspaper...
that the prime suspect Osami bin Laden (sp?) was a civil engineering
contractor in Saudi for a while.

A previous effort at the WTC was apparently intended to topple it.

There is network accessible data on the 'relaxed' building rules
for WTC enabled by the NY Port Authority oversight versus NYC Building.
There is network accessible data on the fire sprinkler irregularities
at the Capitol Building, and (apparently) about the Pentagon refit.

But the most reasonable response is that the design inadequacies of the
WTC building were not known, neither to structural engineers, nor
probably to state sponsors of terrorism.
 They could only be guided by the ever present likelihood that civils
shaved one sheckel too many - a topic stressed in
"To Engineer Is Human" - Petroski.


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
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