Towers Falling

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As The Crown focuses on the last weeks of Diana's life, RICHARD KAY, who was speaking to her five or six times a day reveals the reality was far more compelling and poignant than the Netflix series fiction Newman, Michael E. (2002). "Commerce's NIST Details Federal Investigation of World Trade Center Collapse". National Institute of Standards and Technology. Archived from the original on October 12, 2013 . Retrieved July 28, 2006. The most noteworthy difference was the number of people witnessed falling from the upper levels of each tower. More than 200 people plummeted to their deaths from the trapped floors across all four faces of the North Tower, most of whom were driven to suicide by jumping as their only means of escaping the extreme heat, smoke and flames. [49] This sharply contrasted with the situation in the South Tower, where very few people (four spotted) were forced out of windows along the eastern [50] and southern [51] walls. Shukman, David (September 1, 2011). "Toxic dust legacy of 9/11 plagues thousands of people". BBC News. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011 . Retrieved September 11, 2011.

Lawson, Richard (August 10, 2022). "Fall Is a Dizzying, Thrilling Late-Summer Success". Vanity Fair . Retrieved September 27, 2023.Dwyer, Jim; Flynn, Kevin; Fessenden, Ford (July 7, 2002). "9/11 Exposed Deadly Flaws in Rescue Plan". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 17, 2021 . Retrieved February 15, 2017. For those who have discovered that their loved ones may have been among the estimated 200 or more who plunged to their deaths, this uncomfortable official reticence can only compound the suffering they have already endured. The fireballs resulting from each impact were likely very similar, but appeared vastly different in size despite the planes carrying similar amounts of combustibles. [53] This is because a substantial portion of the jet fuel was channelled into the North Tower instead of being sprayed out into the open. Flight 11 crashed almost midway into the North Tower's central core, [54] causing the ignited jet fuel to shoot through elevator shafts down as far as the basement and concourse levels, [55] with a flash fire exploding from elevators in the ground floor lobby, more than 90 floors below the impact. [56] Flight 175's impact into the South Tower's south face was offset to the east rather than being centralized like Flight 11, [57] leaving the sides of the tower as the only real direction in which the fuel could travel, producing a visibly larger fireball on the outside. NOVA online (2002). "The structure of metal". Why the Towers Fell. WGBH Educational Foundation. Archived from the original on June 13, 2002 . Retrieved May 2, 2006. It seems a harsh fate for those agonised mortals who faced the naked terror of that ten-second plunge to certain death. For the jumpers saved lives even as they were losing theirs.

After the 1993 bombing, inspections found fireproofing to be deficient. [35] Before the collapses, the towers' owners, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, were in the process of adding fireproofing, but had completed only 18floors in 1WTC, including all the floors affected by the aircraft impact and fires, and 13floors in 2WTC, although none were directly affected by the aircraft impact. [36] Building and Fire Research Laboratory (September 2005). Visual Evidence, Damage Estimates, and Timeline Analysis (PDF). National Institute of Standards and Technology (Report). United States Department of Commerce. p.27. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 11, 2021 . Retrieved August 24, 2021. Fire experts say people rarely throw themselves out of burning high-rises until they have exhausted every other option. Indeed, as survivors desperate for fresh, cool air crowded at the windows smashed open by the force of the planes’ impact, it is possible some of the ‘jumpers’ were actually pushed out in the crush. Usmani, A.S.; Y. C. Chung; J. L. Torero (2003). "How did the WTC towers collapse: a new theory" (PDF). Fire Safety Journal. 38 (6): 501–533. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.490.2176. doi: 10.1016/S0379-7112(03)00069-9. hdl: 1842/1216. Archived from the original on March 16, 2012 . Retrieved May 7, 2007. Perlman, David (September 12, 2001). "Jets hit towers in most vulnerable spots". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008 . Retrieved January 4, 2020.Tiffany Haddish BREAKS SILENCE on DUI arrest in new stand-up set at the Laugh Factory in Long Beach Hamburger, Ronald; etal. "World Trade Center Building Performance Study" (PDF). Federal Emergency Management Agency. pp.2–27 & 2–35. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 27, 2008 . Retrieved July 27, 2006.