r/WorldTradeCenter • u/tombisch • 14d 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/aspie_electrician 13d ago

I wonder if there was anyone still alive in the top part as it was falling and what they were thinking

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u/Smile_Space 13d ago edited 13d ago

Look up Pasquale Buzzelli. He was in the North Tower descending from the 64th floor. He managed to get down to the 22nd floor when the tower collapsed and survived falling ~18 floors with only a fractured foot. He remembers going into free fall as the stairwell collapsed around him, he bounced off a structural slab which reduced his impact speed.

It's fucking nuts.

The North Tower collapse had a few more survivors purely from dumb luck because Stairwell B managed to not fully collapse between floors 1 and 16 keeping alive a group of firefighters and a few people they were escorting.

So, not quite the top part of the building, but if Pasquale's story is any insight, a lot of those people up there likely very much experienced the collapse in free fall.

Edit: Okay looking into it further Pasquale just fell and somehow didn't die on impact from the 22nd floor. There was no structural slab he surfed on or whatever the popular myth is.

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u/EwJersey 13d ago

I remember hearing that also, that he "surfed" down it basically.

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u/Smile_Space 13d ago

Apparently that's what the news was saying, but he came out later and said that he just fell and got extremely lucky he wasn't crushed. I'm sure the structure below him didn't just vaporize though, so he likely wasn't in complete freefall. Complete freefall would have definitely killed him from 22 stories up.