On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:52:56 UTC, Chris Tolley
wrote:

: On 25 Jul 2005 11:43:33 GMT, Ian Johnston wrote:
: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:20:54 UTC, "Roger T."
:
: : Rather like the Twin Towers? Able to take the force of a jet aircraft
: : impact?
:
: Which they did, remarkably well. What they didn't do was survive the
: fire.
:
: That does seem a bit like arguing that the people of Hiroshima survived
: the dropping of the atom bomb and only died as a result of the
: explosion. Unless you are suggesting that any architect who might have
: envisaged an aircraft striking the WTC would not have foreseen that a
: fire was likely.

It was designed to withstand aircraft impact, and did so. It was also
designed to withstand fire, which it did reasonably well. What was not
foreseen was an aircraft with full fuel tanks crashing into it, giving
a considerably worse fire than was envisaged.

Ian

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