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Originally Posted by Botnst
Time Magazine, in last weeks issue (I have it and if folks insist, I'll transcribe the relevant portion), mentioned that the engineering analysis of it's catastrophic failure is due to be released in the next few months. Time Magazine said it was due to fuel from the aircraft spewing onto the building and the design of the support of a ConEd station within or on the building. No fiurther explanation, but it will be interesting to see whether the engineering analysis will be as thorough as the one done for the Towers.
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I believe there was already one engineering analysis done which blamed the fire from diesel fuel stored in the building for the collapse but concluded that the likelihood of it actually being the cause of the collapse was very small.
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