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Old 09-15-2001, 01:12 PM  
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It wasn't the plane's impact that knocked them down, the fire fueled by the tonnes of jet fuel softened the steel and caused the structural members to buckle, once one level failed, every level below that was over loaded

It is not clear if re-enforced concrete structure (such as modern bridges etc) would have behaved differently, safe to say that the time to structural failure would have been longer
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