~ Plane Hits Empire State Building ~

[Jeanway 0]

 

Too late the pilot of the U.S. Army B-25 bomber with three men aboard, saw the Empire State Building loom up before his eyes. At 300 miles per hour, he plunged through the 34th Street side of the building wreaking havoc.

 

The major portion of the wreckage penetrated the 78th floor. An engine hurtled down an elevator shaft igniting a furious fire in the basement. Parts of the motor and landing gear tore through the entire building landing on top of a 13-story ediface across the street and igniting a second conflagration.

 

With legs held down by two newsmen, photographer Ernie Sisto crawled out on a harrowing ledge and took the historic photo. It ran on page one of the New York Times.

 

- Eve Berliner

 

Why was there not as much damage to the building then as there was to the Twin Towers in comparison????

[Odie 0]

It was how and the material that the buildings where built, the size of the jet vs the plane, the amount of fuel of the air craft carried. From what I understand that the Empire State built with heavier material which made the build mucher stronger than the twin towers.

[Jeanway 0]

So why do they build such a tall building now so flimsy?? I mean The Empire State Building didn't do what the Towers did. No where near it. This is insanity, what's wrong with people?? They have this sturdy, nearly solid block of concrete, Plane Proof, right there in New York City as an example. Why and how did building codes deteriorate to this. Doesn't anyone think about this stuff???

[Odie 0]

It's just the different type of building material that used. To build tall building such as the twin towers light material used, that doesn't make it weak. The twin towers where also tested it if they could withstand an impact of airplane, and it did. The jets that hit the towers where not built at time when impact study was done in the seventy's. They used the most power plane at the time and it was 747. Remember is was done with model and computers, and not the actually buildings itself.

 

Actually the jets didn't actually bring the building down. They withstood the impact. The impact was far greater of impact with the Empire State. The airplane was much smaller than the jets that hit the twin towers. What brought the towers down was the heat from the fuel that the jets carried. The fire that the explosion caused was while above what the building could withstand.

[Wishfire 2]

Had the B-25 been in the air long? If it had, then it's fuel tanks would be a lot emptier. Remember, the 757s that hit the WTC had full tanks.

[ARMS 0]

Buildings built these days arent built to last like the old ones, its cheaper to have weak structures..

 

[Jeanway 0]

B-25

[Klingonmike 0]

The plane that hit the Empire State Building was a much smaller aircraft compared to the aircraft that hit the Twin Towers, and was also moving slower than the airliners that hit. And there is the fuel, thats what brought down TWTC, all that burning fuel weakened and melted the supports. As mentioned before the towers withstood the impact, but with no way to get the fires out the towers were doomed.

[A l t e r E g o 9]

 

 

Why was there not as much damage to the building then as there was to the Twin Towers in comparison????

 

Because they truly don't make em like they used to. Read me.

 

 

Other links of (possible) interest...

 

http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/towerblast.html

 

http://us.denniskucinich.us/phpBB2/viewtop...8d43b91779d3b40

 

http://brian.carnell.com/archives/years/2001/11/000021.html