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As for Building 7, it was meant to have United Airlines Flight 93 fly into it. Flight 93 was due to take off at 08:00, but it got delayed until 08:42 due to airport congestion. This meant that it only took off four minutes before American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. 42 minutes behind time, it was not going to be believable that it wouldn't have been shot down before going into WTC7, so it had to be shot down.
This then left the dilemma for Silverstein as to whether WTC7 would still be covered on the insurance, and whether it would still seem legit to control demo the building, which was full of incriminating evidence. So WTC7 didn't go down at the planned time, which led to confusion and the premature announcement of it's collapse by the BBC. (Whoever passed the news to the BBC was reading from a script which had been prepared in advance)
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