XPost: rec.aviation.misc, rec.aviation.piloting   
   From: greg@spam.free   
      
   On 6/6/2011 8:27 PM, Edward A. Falk wrote:   
   > In article, Greg  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> An architectural expert stated that the twin towers were designed   
   >>> to sustain an aircraft strike.   
   >>   
   >> Just like the Fukushima nuclear plant was "designed" to sustain a   
   >> tsunami...  And please provide the name and credentials of your   
   >> so-called "expert."   
   >   
   > Actually, it's true.  In 1945, a B25 bomber hit the empire state building,   
   > making a substantial hole, starting a fire, and killing 14 people.   
   > One engine went all the way through the building and landed a block away.   
   >   
   > With that in mind, the twin towers were designed for a similar accident.   
   > The scenario they imagined was a 707 lost in the fog, flying at approach   
   > speed.  The planes that struck the twin towers were moving at full speed   
   > and carrying full loads of fuel.   
   >   
   > The planes that hit the twin towers were 20x the mass of the B25 and   
   > moving at several times the B25's speed.   
      
   Yes, we know.  The B-25 had departed from Hanscom too.   It is true just   
   as Fukushima was designed to sustain a tsunami.  It did not.  By the   
   OP's "logic," the conclusion is that there wasn't a tsunami and a   
   conspiracy melted down the reactors.   
      
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