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Originally Posted by London Banker
- Why did the world's most powerful airforce fail to intercept any of the hijacked planes?
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The US military was poised to fight external threats, not internal threats. Prior to 9/11 no one gave much thought to our own commerical planes being used against us.
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Originally Posted by London Banker
- Why did the Twin Towers collapse so quickly, imploding without damaging surrounding buildings, after short fires on a few floors?
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Each tower took nearly thirty to forty seconds to fall. Keep in mind you saw the top fall. The rest of the building was covered in dust and we never saw it fall.
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Originally Posted by London Banker
- How could an amateur pilot fly a commercial plane in a complicated maneuver, crash it into the Pentagon, 78 minutes after the first report of a possible hijack and leave no trace?
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Landing is complicated. Flying a plane into a large tower is pretty easy really. Even more so when you've had flight training.
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Originally Posted by London Banker
- How could the World Trade Centre 7 building, which was not hit by a plane, collapse so quickly (2.25 seconds) and symmetrically, when no other steel-framed skyscraper has collapsed because of fire?
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You can't compare the fire with Building 7 to any other building unless two large towers fell nearly on top of it, acting like a earthquake, with debris taking out part of the building and perhaps moving it off it's foundation. Add in it was on fire for hours completely unattended, and presto, you have a building that falls.
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Originally Posted by London Banker
-Why is it, that we have the Pentagon, that has more security cameras on it than any building in the whole world, yet there is not one shot / photo of a 747 flying into it?
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Simple.
You don't focus security cameras on the buildings themselves, but instead at the points where people pass through. In fact, the one camera that did catch the plane hitting wasn't focused on the building itself but rather an entry point.