It was “inconceivable” that 2 airplanes hit the twin towers of the WTC on September 11, 2001 – this was the agreed opinion after the attack. Was it really “inconceivable”? Or had something similar happened already? “I was thinking about what it meant for America to be under attack.” - so G.W. Bush on the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Did the attacks come out of the blue?

WTC First Scenario. 9-11/1.

The last Saturday in July 45 was a foggy day. Manhattan is wrapped in haze. In the late morning of July 28 a bomber of the Army flies into the foggy center of New York. It is a twin-engined B-25 Mitchell, it comes from the East River to Manhattan and the bomber has problems with the engines and the control.

The Empire State Building (built 1930-1931) emerges out of the fog. With its 102 floors and a height of 382 meters the skyscraper stands out of the fog – however, the unbelievably low-flying military machine flies at a height of at the most 300 meters. Thus, the pilot only discovers the facade as it is too late. The B-25 hits the Empire State Building from the north. The impact is between the 78th and 79th floor. 3000 litres aviation fuel catch fire immediately. - the WTC was built 1966 to 1973.

However, the building damage is small:

• an elevator guide, Betty Lou Oliver, plunges down 300 meters with the elevator, after the wire ropes had torn due to the impact. She survives the impact of the cab in the cellar.
• Some offices burns out.
• The damage to property amounts to one million dollars
• several days later the elevators are operating again
• there was no serious damage to the building skeleton; the repairs are distributed over almost one year.

14 people died and 25 people were injured by this accident.

WTC Second Scenario. 9-11/2.

Spring 1946, almost one year later: On May 20 an airplane of the coast guard crashes into the Trump Building in Manhattan, 40 Wall Street. This skyscraper is not one of the very large ones, “only” 283 meters high.

The damage is limited. The five airplane passengers, however, are dead. Makabre: among the deaths was Captain T. Hall, member of the committee of inquiry of the crash of the B-25 into the Empire State Building.

Amazing

Skyscapers, symbols of technical progress and economic superpower, boomed in the 20's and 30's of the century. Safety questions are asked after completion, it is a new era of architecture. Shortly after World War II two airplanes crash into skycrapers, afterwards there is nothing comparable for 55 years.

WTC Third Scenario. 9-11/3.

Immediately after the attacks a heated discussion evolved among specialists how it could be possible that the Twin Towers of the WTC collapsed. Two buildings which - as each skyscraper since the 50's – had been structurally safeguarded against airplane crashs (and earthquakes).

An explanation: only the type of airplanes that were common in the 60's had been considered. And not widebody jets as the Boeing 767. But many people doubt this explanation, too.

Blowing Up the World Trade Center?

Structural engineers and other independent experts have repeatedly confirmed that the impact of the two Boeings could not have caused such destruction. Then, what made the Twin Towers of the WTC collapse? Was the World Trade Center purposefully blown up?

Various explosive experts and structural engineers are of the opinion that only purposeful breakups at basic parts on the ground floor could have made the towers of the WTC collapse as we saw it: straight without tilting and in a few seconds. Survivors of September 11 stated that they had heard several explosions before the crash. Only fancies? Or who is at the bottom of the attack on the WTC? According to the decision of the Government we will know it in 30 years.