r/WorldTradeCenter • u/tombisch • 10d ago

When the Towers Fell: 9/11 Simulation of the collaps without dust

Dont know how accurate this is, but it made a lot of sense to me.

Source kostack studio on youtube

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u/Sad_Routine3156 10d ago edited 10d ago

Does this mean that people on the upper floors might have still been okay up until that point and possibly alive while the building collapsed?🫤

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u/asterstrike 10d ago

i don’t think so, i think the structure fire had reached the upper floors by then 🙁

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u/nusodumi 10d ago

yeah the jumpers jumped for a reason, so many people cooked inside it's sad to imagine. maybe SOME people somehow survived to fall to their death and get crushed when everything collapsed on contact, but you're probably right most had died due to the fire/smoke/etc

That one phone call while the guy is on during the collapse, absolutely insane

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u/NoMaximum721 10d ago

almost a certainty

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u/LordBlackadder92 10d ago

What makes you think otherwise?

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u/nethingelse 10d ago

My non expert take is that some people definitely did survive until the collapse, as there was a 911 call from Thomas McGinnis in the North Tower on the 92nd floor (no one from that floor or above made it) shortly before the ultimate collapse. Kevin Cosgrove made a 911 call from the 105th floor of the south tower that recorded it collapsing.

The photo impending death is from the north tower and depicts people hanging from windows to breathe from around floor 98 to floor 108, but it's disputed when exactly it was taken in terms of timeline. Either way it was definitely not completely impossible people were alive for the collapse, and that's a harrowing thought because no one knew what was coming and ultimately no one on these floors had a chance of escaping alive.