That's a valid question with a million possibilities. 60 tons of mass would have (in many's opinion) created a much larger damage area - certainly more that a small hole with front support pillars intact. Keep in mind whatever hit it hit in the only area to have undergone extensive fortification to the outer walls - another convenient coincidence. So minimized damage to the building/personnel is one possibility. Maybe there wasn't another airliner available to drone in on its target. Somebody knew something about AA and UA before the attacks - Put options on AA and UA stocks in the couple of days preceding were 285X their average. And perhaps a 'sleight of hand' was more feasible logistically and financially. Maybe nothing hit it - there was a quite a few Pentagon folks who smelled cordite and called it out by name, many other described a shock concussion wave experienced around explosives.



I'm quite sure no one has ever come under investigation <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> But yeah - Silverstein the new lease holder (who took out an unprecedented 99 yr lease on the buildings just 4 months earlier) scored big time on his investment. Got them for a song due to the fact that compliance with asbestos removal was slated at over $1 billion. With insurance claims and return of the initial $125 million by the Port Authority, his $380 million investment netted him about $2 Billion. Not bad for a dude who's only claim to fame prior was his Laotian heroin laundering operation at his nightclub in Queens 10 years before.

And of course there's all that gold that was in WTC4 that was found deserted in vans under WTC 1&2 when unearthed - wonder where that went. ah well.

7 years in the making - NIST's explanation of WTC7 collapse.

Scott Forbes

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