The death toll of the September 11th
mass murder was large by historical standards of massacres. Yet it would have
been much larger if not for a number of characteristics of the attacks which
appear planned to minimize the death toll while still carrying out the
unprecedented terror of flying jetliners into two of the largest buildings in
the world, then demolishing them with people still inside.
AA Flight 11 181 92 86 47
UA Flight 175 181 65 56 31
AA Flight 77 200 64 56 28
UA Flight 93 200 44 33 16
WTC 1, the first tower to be hit, was
struck around the 96th floor at 8:46 AM. Since there were only about 14
floors above the crash site, hundreds, rather than thousands, of people were
cut off from escape by the crash. If the strike were much higher, a
gravity-driven collapse would not have been a plausible explanation
for the following "collapse." WTC 2 was struck around the
81st floor at 9:03. Although the strike was more than ten stories lower,
the 18 minutes between the first and second strikes allowed most of
the people in the top 30 stories of WTC 2 to evacuate while the elevators
were still running. More would have survived if not for a message over the
PA system assuring people the building was secure, and that they could
return to their floors. The veering of the second jet to the right before
it hit WTC 2 caused it to hit the right half of the southeast wall and
partly emerges from the east corner. That allowed the core and its stairwells
to remain largely undamaged. At least 18 people escaped from above the
crash zone after the impact, according to the New York Times. 1 When
the first plane hit, the Twin Towers were at well below their
typical daily peak occupancy. Only about half of office workers normally
arrive before 9 AM, and many were delayed by voting, since it was an
election day. Few tourists and shoppers were present at that hour.
Two hours later the buildings would have held around 50,000 people rather
than the 20,000 actually present. If the strikes had been in the middle of
the day, and the impacts had been centered and at the 45th floors
(just above the surrounding buildings) 30,000 could have been trapped
and killed.
Pentagon At the time the Pentagon was hit, about 20,000 people were at work in the building. Yet despite the significant portion of the building affected by the crash, only 125 Pentagon employees were killed. The portion of the building that sustained the impact, called "Wedge One", had recently undergone renovations including the reinforcement of exterior walls with steel beams and columns.2
2.
Engineering Report on Pentagon Disaster, ArchitectureWeek.com,
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