This hole is black, not brightly coloured with flames from a fire. If a fire destroyed these buildings, why are there so few flames? Why are these holes so black? Eric Hufschmid, Painful Deceptions
Immediately air rushed in but it stung us: these tiny little pieces of metal came around the building and into our window, and that’s what stung us and was hot. Louis Lesce, 86th floor North Tower, cited Inside 9/11: Zero Hour
You couldn’t see anything. And someone said, ‘Anybody in here?’ And we said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘All right, this way.’ And that’s what you did. You followed. That’s the difference between people like me and heroes who stop and say, ‘Is there anybody I can help get out?’ You know heroism is maybe someone who is so afraid, who is so frightened, who gets fed up and says, ‘Dammit, I’m not going to let this happen not only to me but to somebody else.’ Louis Lesce
The plane smashed into the building. The bottom wing sliced right through my office. And the plane wing is stuck in the office door twenty feet from where I am. Stanley Praimnath, 81st floor South Tower, interview Inside 9/11: Zero Hour
American Flight 11 has ripped through floors 93 to 99 of the North Tower of the World Trade Centre. Over 20,000 gallons of jet fuel ignite. Inside 9/11: Zero Hour
The fires burned at a temperature of about 1,100 degrees in some cases. Now that’s sufficient to cause the steel to lose half its strength. Now if it only has half its strength it doesn’t have the ability to support the floor above it any more. 9/11 Myths
Some safety experts believe stronger walls might have allowed many more people to get down the stairways. Why the Towers Fell, PBS 2002
Inside, the fire was weakening the floor trusses. Some were starting to soften and sag pulling on their bolted connections to the columns. The trusses were essential for holding the building together. If too many failed, the building would collapse. ibid.
We knew those Towers as well as anybody. But nobody, nobody, expected September 11th. 9/11: Ten Years On, firefighter’s narrative, National Geographic 2013
Something had happened right there in the lobby. ibid.
Pieces of the building and the planes actually landed blocks away. ibid.
All we can do is tell them the stories and show them the tape. ibid. firefighter
4,300 planes were in US airspace at that moment. 9/11: State of Emergency
Each firefighter carried one hundred pounds of protective equipment and tools. ibid.
Why did these two huge buildings collapse the way they did? … Built to survive a direct impact from an airliner, could office fires really cause two of the world’s most sophisticated buildings to collapse. 9/11: The Missing Evidence aka 9/11: Secret Explosions in the Towers, Channel 5 2020
‘Many architects and engineers, technical and building professionals, have found evidence for explosive-controlled demolitions.’ ibid. Richard Gage
‘The official report does not account for the hundreds of witness testimonies of explosions.’ ibid.
In all over 118 New York firefighters claimed they heard explosions just before the collapse of both Towers. ibid.
Around the world high-rise steel buildings have remained standing despite the most intense fire damage. ibid.
‘The missing evidence is the aircraft.’ ibid. professor of materials
Molten aluminium can be one of the most explosive substances in the world. ibid.
The presence of aircraft debris in the fires could provide a solution to the outstanding question of why so many people heard explosions prior to the collapse. ibid.
Could office fire cause two of the world’s most sophisticated buildings to collapse? 9/11: A Twin Towers Conspiracy, Channel 5 2018
In October 2005 they published their conclusions. According to the report, the buildings collapsed because when the aircrafts hit, the impact dislodged the fireproofing around the buildings’ structural steel skeleton. ibid.
Over 118 New York firefighters claimed they heard explosions just before the collapse of both towers. ibid.
So why did the steel frame of the Twin Towers fail? ibid.
Aircraft [aluminium] parts formed no part of the official investigation’s fire tests … Could the presence of aluminium provide the trigger that led to the initial collapse of the building? ibid.
Molten aluminium can be one of the most explosive substances in the world. ibid.
The sprinkler system wasn’t the only source of water. ibid.
The idea that the trusses alone would have been able to pull and break apart the external structure makes no sense. September 11: The New Pearl Harbor, 2013
In the case of the Twin Towers however both upper sections fell with an acceleration close to free-fall speed. ibid.
Architects and engineers entered the fray. ibid.
Controlled demolition seems the only valid explanation. ibid.
The elevator shafts gave direct access to the core column. ibid.
Twin Towers Engineered To Withstand Jet Collision. ibid. The Seattle Times 17 January 2013
‘The first secondary explosion really got us kooked.’ ibid. witness
‘They believe there was a bomb in the lobby.’ ibid. reporter with witnesses
11 weeks later and the fires kept burning. ibid.
‘I’m on the 83rd floor … Are you going to be able to get somebody up here?’ Zero: An Investigation into 9/11, 911 call
Temperature inside the building was not particularly high as we can see from the presence of this women who is standing at the precise point where the plane impact. ibid.
The old Pancake Theory was replaced by the Inward Bowing Theory. ibid.
The incredible speed at which the Towers came down … ‘It took about eight or ten seconds for the whole tower just to go straight down.’ ibid.
It was massive: from one end of this floor to the other end of the floor was the size of a football field … I loved it. 9/11: Escape from the Towers, Twin Towers worker, History 2020
It sounded like a freight train. And I remember hanging up the phone, turning around … It hit you … ibid.
In a very orderly, mechanical tempo down the stairs. ibid.
There was one woman who came down the steps with her arms outstretched. You could tell she was burnt. And the skin was literally draped off of her arms, both arms. That’s something I don’t ever forget. ibid.
I made my way over to the window. What caught my eye was this beautiful bright blue sky. And there’s papers floating down. I’m almost smiling at the beauty of the scene. And there’s this sound, it sounded like glass twinkling down the side of the building, sort of wind-chime almost. And an enormous fireball came flying towards the window. ibid.
I came down the escalator from the 78th to 77th less than two minutes earlier, and I knew the persons I had just talked to were all dead. ibid.
Whether you went up or whether you went down, whether you went left or whether you went right, that decided whether you were going to live or die that day. ibid.