OT: RE: Sad News - Jets crashed into World Trade Center

Here is what the Los Angeles Times had to say on the subject. Short version - not bombs, but burning jet fuel caused the buildings to collapse.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000073606sep12.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Da%5Fsection 2 Planes Hit Twin Towers at Exactly the Worst Spot

<<To many who saw the buildings fall on television, the collapse resembled a planned demolition, especially in the way that the twin towers imploded--tumbling in on themselves. But engineering experts discounted the notion that additional explosives had been planted around the base of the buildings to ensure that they came down.

Demolition of a building the size of the ones in the World Trade Center would require "literally hundreds of charges around the building," Hamburger said. "It's inconceivable to me anyone would be able to place that many charges--even with years of planning."

Instead, the impact of the planes themselves, and the tremendous heat generated by tons of burning jet fuel--upward of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit--would suffice to destroy the buildings, said Scott Gustafson, owner of Demtech Inc. of Blue Springs, Mo., one of the world's leading demolition experts.>> Received on Wed Sep 12 2001 - 12:15:53 CDT