"At one point they were talking about dumping it into the sea, to make a new reef for fish"
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert at the House Science Committee hearing, March 6, 2002, describing the destruction of evidence at Ground Zero in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert at the House Science Committee hearing, March 6, 2002, describing the destruction of evidence at Ground Zero in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
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World Trade Tower 7- was a 47-story skyscraper considered so robust that it was selected to house the NYC office of emergency management (a bunker to be used by city officials in the event of an earthquake, hurricane, etc.). The building was not hit by an airplane but fell into its own footprint on the afternoon of 9/11.
In 2008, the government declared the collapse was the "world's first known fire induced collapse of a steel and concrete skyscraper". No physical evidence was examined by the government to determine this because it was melted down prior to their investigation (see below). |
Tower 7 housed several important government entities including the Securities and Exchange Commission, which would have investigated the widely reported insider trading based on foreknowledge of 9/11 (were it not for the mysterious collapse).
Fire Engineering is based in New Jersey and is the nation's oldest firefighting trade journal. On January 1st, 2002, they published this editorial which described the ongoing destruction of evidence at Ground Zero.
A single sentence in the government's Final Report on the collapse of WTC 7 explains why they have included no examination of structural steel in their collapse analysis-
ES 2.2 This Report
" . . . Numerous facts and data were obtained, then combined with validated computer modeling to
produce an account that captures the key features of what actually occurred. However, the reader should
keep in mind that the building and the records kept within it were destroyed, and the remains of all the
WTC buildings were disposed of before congressional action and funding was available for this
Investigation to begin. As a result, there are some facts that could not be discerned, and thus there are
uncertainties in this accounting".
NC STAR 1A
Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the
World Trade Center Disaster
" . . . Numerous facts and data were obtained, then combined with validated computer modeling to
produce an account that captures the key features of what actually occurred. However, the reader should
keep in mind that the building and the records kept within it were destroyed, and the remains of all the
WTC buildings were disposed of before congressional action and funding was available for this
Investigation to begin. As a result, there are some facts that could not be discerned, and thus there are
uncertainties in this accounting".
NC STAR 1A
Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the
World Trade Center Disaster
How the government investigations worked
The government investigations describe hypothetical "collapse initiation sequences", followed by a statement that "the building then collapsed", without further explanation. Below are two short videos produced by the government summarizing their investigations (with links to the published reports). I encourage you to review what the government investigations have to say (see the Full Presentation for more details).
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Short video produced by NIST summarizing their explanation for the collapse of Tower-7
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Short video produced by NIST describing the investigation of the Twin Tower's collapse
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