On Monday 18 September 2006 17:00, Richard Hosking wrote: > As I understand it the heat of the fire about 2/3 of the way up the > building caused a failure of the supports at this level from each > corner to the central lift shaft. Once this had occurred the weight of > the building above caused this level to collapse and impact on the level > below. This failed on impact also and there was a progressive collapse > after this. Each floor was essentially suspended from the corners - > there wasnt much strength in the central shaft. If the fire had been at > the top of the building the collapse probably wouldnt have happened.
Perhaps "as you understand" doesn't accord with the history given by the patient? I've learnt that a third building fell down, and I paid as little attention to American media as possible after the event, so that's my deliberate effort on evading getting a history. Perhaps you'd better read the carefully written information suggested by Peter and Ian? -- You'd like to do it instantaneously, but that's too slow. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
