Text 27300, 40 rader
Skriven 2009-02-06 22:33:58 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
  Kommentar till text 27274 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: Re: War On Terror Is Over
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BA> Note that the fighters that were dispatched to intercept the jetliners on
BA> 9/11 did
BA> not find them, and in the US northeast there were precisely *four*
BA> fighters available, and only two of them on ready alert; ...
 
One was piloted by a Northwest-pilot who also did things for some state's Air
National Guard. He later wrote about that he had to remain on standy over the
pentagon as defence of the capital but that his plane was unarmed.
 
 
BA> In any case the Empire State Building is of different construction than
BA> the WTC
BA> buildings (and most newer skyscrapers) and would probably survive such an
BA> event.
 
On the contrary.
 
In the WTC's north tower most people below the point of impact were able to
flee ... the trip down the stairs was some 40 minutes from around the 70th
floor.
 
The Empire State most likely would immediately have crashed. It's a steel frame
with concrete and a lot of brick&mortar work.
 
BA> In the late 1940s or early 1950s a USAF B-25 crashed into it, ...
 
Have you ever seen the size of a B-25 compared to a 767?
 
That B-25 was low on fuel trying to land at LaGuardia in the fog but
miscalculated its approach and tried to get over Manhattan to go to Newark.
It's weight at the time of the crash was estimated at 22,000 pounds flying
around 160mph. The 767 which crashed in the South Tower weighed around 270,000
pounds and flew at a speed in excess of 500mph.
 
Notice the difference?
 
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