Leaked FEMA/ASCE Draft Report On WTC Collapse

securitas writes "The New York Times obtained a copy of the World Trade Center draft report by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Society of Civil Engineers about the engineering failures that caused the towers to collapse. Among the findings: 'Fireproofing, sprinkler systems and the water supply for hoses were all disabled and the fires generated heat equivalent to the energy output of a nuclear power plant' reports the NYT (Yahoo link). Amazingly, if it wasn't for the fire (or another secondary catastrophic force), the towers would have remained standing."

Amazingly

[Anonymous Coward]

if it weren't for the 767s, massive fires, tens of thousands of gallons of burning jet fuel, and the abliteration of the several floors worth of the buildings' structural cores, the towers would have remained standing. But, shhh, this is leaked info. Don't tell anyone.

Re:hmmmmmm.....

[ZaneMcAuley]

Microsoft Joke
There was a pilot flying a small single engine charter plane, with a couple of very important executives on board. He was coming into Seattle airport through thick fog with less than 10m visibility when his instruments went out. So he began circling around looking for a landmark.
After an hour or so, he starts running pretty low on fuel and the passengers are getting very nervous.
Finally, a small opening in the fog appears and he sees a tall building with one guy working alone on the fifth floor. The pilot banks the plane around, rolls down the window and shouts to the guy
"Hey, where am I?"
To this, the solitary office worker replies
"You're in a plane."
The pilot rolls up the window, executes a 275 degree turn and proceeds to execute a perfect blind landing on the runway of the airport 5 miles away. Just as the plane stops, so does the engine as the fuel has run out.
The passengers are amazed and one asks how he did it.
"Simple" replies the pilot,
"I asked the guy in that building a simple question. The answer he gave me was 100 percent correct but absolutely useless, therefore it must have been
Microsoft's support office. Knowing that, it was easy to find my way to the airport."

The Price Is Right...

[JeffLebowski]

hey wait, we would save $5 a day if we disabled all the fireproofing, sprinkers, and water supply. This might get me promoted!

because folks safety and regulations mean squat compared to having that extra $20,000 bonus...

all you high level execs, you know who i mean...

--
J.

"There goes one of gods own prototypes, some kind of mutant never even considered for mass production, too weird to live and to rare to die..."

Re:Amazingly

[Transcendent]

The point was that the sprinklers were shut off.... raising a question as to why, who did it, and could the towers still have been standing if they were on?

Lesson Learned...

[Yoda2]

In the future, we'll just have to build all really tall buildings underwater. Maybe Kevin Costner could offer up some good advice.

22.5 Years

[gvonk]

how long does something have to be in the past before no one cares I wonder

It's 22.5 years. That's how long it took for AIDS to be funny.
And if you haven't seen the South Park episode [southparkstudios.com], DON'T MOD!!!

Re:putting out fires

[rtaylor]

Of course we all know that the buildings built with extroardinary fire fighting capabilities are going to have the occupants drown when terrorists seal all windows, doors and turn on the system full blast.

Re:Future

[thelizman]

Not much of a view down there...and the deeper you go the more expensive it is to excavate.

Re:A "part" of it destroyed????

[maggard]

Pentagon is about 100(??) floors underground.

Riiiiiight.

Built in a rush before WWII.

In a swamp.

On pilings.

W/O word getting out.

To this day.

Riiiiight. It's where they hide "The Greys".