September 11, 2001, 7:30 am New York time. American Airlines Flight 11 is boarding at Boston Logan Airport on the Boston to Los Angeles route. 92 people are on board, including five terrorists led by the Egyptian Mohammed Atta.

7:59 . Flight 11 (a Boeing 767) leaves Boston with a 14-minute delay and heads for Los Angeles.

8:13 . The crew of Flight 11 conducts the last communication session with ground services, after which they stop answering calls. At this point, the hijackers break into the cockpit and take control of the Boeing.

8:14 . A United Airlines Boeing 767 is departing from Logan Airport on flight 175 Boston - Los Angeles. There are nine crew members and 56 passengers on board, including five terrorists.

8:19 . Flight 11 flight attendant Betty Ong manages to contact the airline's office on the flight phone. She reports that unidentified people sprayed tear gas, several people were injured, and the plane appeared to be hijacked.

8:20 . A Boeing 757 departs from Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C.
American Airlines flight 77 Washington - Los Angeles. There are six crew members and 58 passengers on board, including five terrorists.

8:24 . Flight 11 makes a U-turn and heads for New York. At the same time, the terrorist mistakenly presses the button for communication with ground services instead of the button for in-cabin communication, and dispatchers hear the words of the hijackers addressed to passengers: “We have several aircraft. Be quiet and everything will be fine. We're going back to the airport."

8:37 . The message about the capture of flight 11 is transmitted by controllers to the American military, more precisely, to the command of the Eastern Air Defense Sector.

8:42 . A Boeing 757 operated by United Airlines departs from Newark Airport on flight 93 Newark to San Francisco. On board the liner, which took off with a 40-minute delay, 37 passengers, including four terrorists.

8:43 . Terrorists hijack Flight 175.

8:44 . From Flight 11, the American Airlines office calls flight attendant Amy Sweeney. She reports that something incomprehensible is happening, the plane is rapidly descending. The last phrase of the stewardess: "Oh, God ..." After that, the call is interrupted.

8:46 . At about 800 kilometers per hour, Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York at the level of 93-99 floors of the building. Interceptor planes, prepared in connection with the information about the hijacking of Flight 11, still remain at the airfield.

8:48-8:49 . American television companies begin live coverage from the crash site. There is no information yet that a terrorist attack took place.

IN north tower The World Trade Center starts a big fire. People, cut off by fire on the upper floors of the building, begin to throw themselves out of the windows. Over the next hour and a half, at least 100 people will commit suicide in this way. One of those thrown out will cause the death of a firefighter, on whom it will fall from a great height.

8:51 . Flight 77 is hijacked.

8:52 . The flight attendant of Flight 175 contacts the office of United Airlines by on-board telephone, reporting that the plane has been hijacked, both pilots have been killed, the flight attendant has been injured, and the liner is being controlled by hijackers.

8:53 . Two interceptor aircraft were raised into the air, but they were only tasked with patrolling the Long Island area.

8:54 . Flight 77 changes course, heading south.

8:55 . US President George Bush, which is located in the elementary school. Emma Booker of the Florida city of Sarasota, reports that the plane crashed into the World Trade Center tower in New York.

8:56 . The terrorists on Flight 77 disable the transponder on board, and controllers lose the ability to observe the aircraft. The liner is headed for Washington.

8:58 . Flight 175 takes a direction to New York.

9:00 . Flight 175 passenger Peter Henson from the plane he calls his father and reports that the passengers are in a panic, the flight attendants are injured, the plane makes sudden movements, descending, and most likely will crash into some building. “Don't worry, dad. If this happens, everything will be very fast. My God, my God,” are the last words of Peter Henson.

9:03 . At a speed of about 960 kilometers per hour, Flight 175 crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center at the level of 78-85 floors.

9:05 . President George W. Bush is reported on the second plane that crashed into the WTC tower, with the words: "America is under attack."

9:08 . A ban is introduced on the departure of all aircraft whose route lies in the airspace of New York.

9:17 . Named for the first time as the organizer of the attack on America - the version belongs to CBS News correspondent for Jim Stewart.

9:23 . The crew of Flight 93, the last of those on which the terrorists are, and which has not yet been hijacked, receive a warning: "Beware of intrusion into the cockpit - two planes crashed into the World Trade Center."

9:28 . Terrorists aboard Flight 93 storm the cockpit as ground controllers hear.

9:29 . President Bush's first public statement regarding the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers. The president's entourage has no information about two more hijacked planes.

9:35 . In Washington, a decision was made to evacuate the US Vice President from the White House.

9:37 . Flight 77 crashes into the west wing of the Pentagon in Washington.

9:43 . In Washington, there is a complete evacuation of the White House and the Capitol.

9:45 . US airspace is completely closed, all flights are prohibited, aircraft in the air are ordered to land at the nearest airports.

9:57 . Passengers of Flight 93, thanks to calls to relatives and friends who know what happened to the previously hijacked planes, raise a riot against the terrorists.

9:59 . There is a complete destruction of the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York.

10:03 . Flight 93 crashes 129 kilometers southeast of Pittsburgh in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It later became known from the recording of voice recorders that the terrorists sent the plane into the ground at the moment when passengers burst into the cockpit trying to regain control of the plane.

10:10 . The damaged wing of the Pentagon building collapses.

10:11 . US Vice President Dick Cheney, not knowing about the fall of Flight 93, orders the military to destroy it.

10:28 . The north tower of the World Trade Center is being destroyed. The Marriott Hotel, located between the two towers, was also completely destroyed.

17:20 . The 47-storey building of WTC 7 collapses, having received large-scale damage during the destruction of the "twin towers".

The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States killed 2,977 people, not counting 19 suicide bombers, and more than two dozen people are still missing. Among the dead, in addition to US citizens, were citizens of 91 states. 96 of them were citizens of the countries of the former USSR or immigrants from them.

On September 11, 2001, a series of terrorist attacks were carried out in the United States, which resulted in the death of 2977 people. According to the official version, the devastating attacks were carried out by members of the al-Qaeda* group, but there are facts that can refute the generally accepted point of view.

Fast Version

This is the official version of what happened. Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, four passenger Boeings were hijacked mid-air by Arab terrorists. The hijackers were armed only with clerical knives and gas cartridges. Two aircraft attacked the twin towers of the World Trade Center, located in the southern part of Manhattan, the third plane was sent to the Pentagon building, the fourth did not reach the Capitol and crashed in the middle of a field in Pennsylvania.

This version was formed just a few days after the tragedy, and the American government has not changed it again. Such hasty conclusions suggest that Washington was preparing for this in advance.

We have already encountered a situation where the White House "knew for sure" that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction, Muammar Gaddafi was sponsoring international terrorism, and Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons.

None of these allegations have ever been substantiated. However, these suspicions have become a pretext for the US-sanctioned use of military forces in Iraq, Libya and Syria. It is expected that after the events of September 11, the Americans stepped up military operations in Afghanistan.

Immediately after the explosions, the head of Al Qaeda * Osama bin Laden declared his non-involvement in the attacks. Unusual behavior for a man who has always been happy to take responsibility for the terrorist attacks he was involved in. Later, bin Laden nevertheless admitted his involvement in the events of September 11, however, according to some, this was a person only similar to the leader of Al Qaeda *.

Strange destruction

Probably, not everyone knows that during the attack on New York, three buildings of the World Trade Center (WTC) collapsed. In addition to the well-known twin towers No. 1 and No. 2, there was also a skyscraper No. 7. The government commission set up to investigate the events of September 11 preferred to keep silent about this fact. House number 7 is a 47-story high-rise, noticeably inferior to its twin brothers in growth.

In particular, it housed the New York branch of the CIA headquarters. This building avoided being hit by an aircraft, but by 5 pm it collapsed in the same way as the twin towers.

According to authorities, the cause of the collapse of the building was burning fragments that fell on it from collapsing skyscrapers, as well as the ensuing fire. However, WTC buildings numbered 3, 4, 5 and 6 were much closer to the towers, and they all survived. Maybe the fall of the 7th house had another reason?

As for the twin towers, researchers are still concerned about a curious question: why did not only the upper floors of the building collapse, but also the lower ones? The official version is inexorable: when the building was destroyed, the top carried away the rest of it.

However, here too there is a problem. Parts of the tower structure did not fall in different directions, but formed right under the base, like a house of cards.

The designers of the World Trade Center unanimously declare that when building skyscrapers, the possible hit of an aircraft was taken into account, as is the case with all skyscrapers. If a catastrophic scenario does occur, then, they say, it cannot lead to devastating consequences of this magnitude.

The footage of the disaster clearly shows that the planes crash into buildings in completely different ways: the liner “entered” the northern tower right in the center, the southern one at an acute angle, cutting off the edge of the skyscraper. At the same time, the destruction of the towers was surprisingly uniform and symmetrical, as in a prepared explosion. And then a strange thing happens: the south tower, less affected by the explosion, collapses first, and only half an hour later the north tower falls, where the consequences of the disaster should have been more impressive.

Experts analyzed the video of the collapse of the towers and almost unanimously stated that this is how the industrial demolition of buildings takes place. Indeed, if you carefully look at the slow-motion footage of the disaster, you can see how explosive waves run through the entire height of the building at equal distances - as if a pre-laid charge had detonated.

Here are two more facts that will make you think. Shortly before the attack, the floors into which the planes subsequently flew were closed for repairs. And a few weeks before the tragedy, the owner of the twin towers, Larry Silverstein, insured them for $ 3 billion, and insurance against terrorist attacks was prescribed as a separate item.

Electoral fire

According to the official conclusions, hundreds of thousands of tons of steel structures melted in a monstrous fire, and hundreds of tons of concrete were erased into dust.

Is it possible that ignited aviation kerosene, the combustion temperature of which is less than 1000 ° C, caused hardened steel to “tremble”, which melts at no less than 2000 ° C. At the same time, there was a critical loss of strength of 50 massive load-bearing beams at once, which is possible only if the fuel is evenly spilled over all areas of the floor.

As a result of the explosions, charred and unrecognizable body particles remained from the passengers of both Boeings. Meanwhile, the passport of Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers, which became one of the main pieces of evidence in favor of the guilt of al-Qaeda *, turned out to be completely unscathed. According to the commission, the document miraculously survived a powerful explosion, fell out of the plane and landed safely near the building.

The US government was in such a hurry to come to the right conclusion that it was not even going to pay attention to such incidents. Further more.

The Commission of Inquiry announced the identification of some of the passengers and crew members of the aircraft by the "remains of DNA." And this is after the fire actually completely destroyed the body of the liner, made of aircraft-grade aluminum resistant to high temperatures.

It is curious that despite the “remnants of DNA” preserved in a fantastic way, the black boxes were recognized as completely destroyed by fire. Looking at this, it only remains to believe that the fire acted selectively, completely not guided by the laws of the physical world.

No trace

The third hijacked Boeing, flying American Airlines Flight 77, crashed into the Pentagon, according to official figures. In order to inflict the most sensitive damage to the building and people, the terrorists sent the liner along the lowest possible trajectory. It is known that the height of the Boeing 757 is 13 meters, the Pentagon - 24 meters.

Based on this, the final kilometers of the flight of the liner had to pass at a height of only a few meters above the ground, which is an almost impossible task for pilots who have just completed express courses.

Moreover, such a maneuver was absolutely unjustified, since, according to many experts, it would not lead to such damage as when falling at an angle. In this case, it would be difficult even for an inexperienced pilot to miss, given the impressive area of \u200b\u200bthe Pentagon - 117,363 sq.m. It turns out that the terrorists, who carefully planned the attack, chose a more complicated and less effective path.

However, the main incident is ahead. Independent researchers who studied photographs of the disaster were alerted by the fact that the Boeing did not leave traces of the wings when it hit the building. Their fragments were not found nearby either. Moreover, even inside the destroyed section of the building there were no hints of aircraft fragments. According to official conclusions, they were all destroyed by a powerful explosion and fire, which is very doubtful.

All of these facts suggest another reason for the destruction in the Pentagon - a planned explosion. But if we assume that the Boeing 757 did not crash into the Pentagon, where did the car itself disappear with the passengers and crew of this ill-fated flight?

As for the fourth "Boeing", which did not reach the Capitol and crashed in the fields of Pennsylvania, it is the least of all questions. However, there are still inconsistencies. Authorities claim the ground impact was the cause of the deaths, but no significant number of aircraft fragments have been found at the alleged crash site. Eyewitnesses say that the wreckage was scattered for many kilometers. According to the assumption of researchers who do not share the official point of view, the liner could have been hit in the air by a rocket fired from a fighter.

The official version reads: passengers, by contacting mobile phones with family, learned that two planes had already crashed into buildings in Manhattan and decided to prevent the plans of the hijackers. It was as a result of the struggle ensued on board that the plane went off course and went into a steep dive. However, experts argue that the ability to use cellular communication in flight appeared only in 2005.

Avoid inconsistencies

Everything in this story is alarming, including the behavior of top American officials. For example, President George W. Bush for a long time ignored the invitation to speak before Congress, but when he agreed to a meeting, he set conditions that seemed to be incomprehensible at first glance. He insisted on limiting the conversation in time - no more than an hour and the obligatory invitation to the event of Vice President Dick Cheney. At the request of the head of the White House, only two people were to be present from the commission investigating the tragedy.

After a long debate, it was still possible to agree on the participation of 10 members of the commission and remove the time limit. During the meeting, everyone expected to hear from the president exhaustive, and most importantly, reliable information about what had happened, but everything turned out to be much more complicated. Bush did not allow the meeting to be videotaped, audiotaped, or even transcribed. In addition, Bush and Cheney refused to take an oath that could assure listeners of the veracity of what was said.

In April 2004, the performance finally took place. However, to this day it is not known what Bush and Cheney said to the congressmen. Many draw attention to the absurdity of this situation. It looks like this if one witness agreed to speak in court only in the presence of another witness. Why is this needed? Probably in order to avoid inconsistency in testifying.

Every year, the belief grows stronger in the world that the attacks were planned by the US intelligence agencies in order to justify the actions of the US military in the Middle East. But it is premature to draw final conclusions. So far, we can say with certainty only the following: if the US authorities did not stage the attacks themselves, then at least they did not interfere with their planning.

* Al-Qaeda is a terrorist group, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation

“Dear fellow citizens, today our way of life, our freedom is under attack,” for many Americans, these words of President George W. Bush meant that their lives would never be the same. On September 11, 2001, the United States was hit by the deadliest terrorist attack in history: 19 al-Qaeda fighters hijacked four passenger aircraft, turning them into powerful weapons. Two airliners crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one crashed into the Pentagon building, another crashed in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people died as a result. Lenta.ru figured out how America has changed 15 years after the terrible attack and why its consequences are felt to this day.

“Something is wrong… We are in a sharp decline. I see water, I see houses. We're flying low, very low, too low. Oh God, we're flying too low. Oh God," American Airlines Flight 11 flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney didn't have time to finish her sentence as the plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.

Audio recordings of the last words of passengers doomed to death, photographs of skyscrapers in flames and people jumping out of them shocked American society. Citizens demanded the immediate punishment of those who dared to attack the United States, the authorities wanted the same.

Washington goes to war

The intention to strike a crushing blow against terrorism was expressed by George W. Bush in his very first speech on September 11, 2001. “America, along with its friends, allies, unites with everyone who wants peace and security throughout the world. Together we will win the war against terrorism,” he assured the Americans. His approval rating soared to 90 percent, and Bush took decisive action.

Within three days, Congress gave the president the authority to use the US military to retaliate against all those who "planned, approved, carried out, or assisted in carrying out" the 9/11 attacks and those who provided safe haven to terrorists.

On September 20, Bush issued an ultimatum to the Afghan authorities, demanding that the leader of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, who was hiding on the territory of this state, and all those involved in the attacks be handed over. Kabul asked for proof of bin Laden's guilt, promising to try him in an Islamic court. Evidence was not provided. And the founder of Al-Qaeda himself denied involvement in the attack (Osama admitted that it was he who planned the attack only in 2004).

On October 7, US Air Force aircraft launched the first strikes against Afghan targets, starting the longest war in US history. In November, Kabul was taken, the Taliban were pushed back into the mountains. But this campaign was only partially successful: bin Laden was never captured.

The world community had no doubts about the justification for the invasion of Afghanistan. Bush's decision was supported by many leaders, including Vladimir Putin. But the US president's intention to send troops to Iraq was condemned even by US allies in NATO. Nevertheless, in 2003, American soldiers entered the territory of this state and, almost without resistance, overthrew the regime of Saddam Hussein. Further events did not develop at all as planned in Washington. Many world leaders, as well as experts, have warned that the removal of Hussein would throw Iraq into chaos and turn it into an Islamist foothold - and that is exactly what happened.

After the whole world was surrounded by footage depicting the abuse of captured Afghans and Iraqis in the prisons of Bagram and Abu Ghraib, the attitude towards the Americans, who had not been particularly loved in the Middle East before, deteriorated catastrophically. Many Muslims began to perceive them as new crusaders, enemies of Islam. The ranks of the jihadists grew rapidly. One of the consequences of Bush Jr.'s reckless decision to attack Iraq is the rise of the most notorious terrorist group in modern times: the Islamic State (IS).

The current American leader, Barack Obama, even during the first election campaign, promised to return military personnel home. But he fulfilled his promise only partially: in July 2016, he was forced to leave almost eight and a half thousand soldiers in Afghanistan to help local security forces. Troops were withdrawn from Iraq, but this allowed IS jihadists to capture almost half of the country.

“There are more suicide attacks against Americans and their allies in Afghanistan, Iraq and other Muslim countries every month than in the entire period of world history before 2001. Between 1980 and 2003, there were 343 self-blasts worldwide, and at least 10 percent of these attacks were inspired by anti-Americanism. Since 2004, there are already more than two thousand of them - and nine out of ten are directed against the Americans and their allies, ”wrote Robert Pape, an American political scientist and professor at the University of Chicago, in 2010 in Foreign Policy magazine.

On September 11, 2001, three planes controlled by terrorists crashed into the skyscrapers of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York and into the Pentagon building. The fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. As a result of the attacks, those who were in the buildings and in the hijacked aircraft were killed. In addition, the disaster claimed the lives of firefighters and police, thanks to the efforts of which about 30,000 people were saved. Over 55,000 people worked at the WTC on weekdays, and the daily number of visitors and tourists reached 150,000. On July 15, 2002, work was officially completed to search for the remains of the victims of the attacks.

On August 20, 2002, the first official list of those who died in New York as a result of the collapse of the World Trade Center was published. It includes 2819 people from 80 countries of the world, including three Russians. The two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center skyscrapers killed a total of 157 people. 343 firefighters died. Identified by relatives or by DNA analysis of 1102 people. According to statistics, out of ten people who died in New York, eight were men, the average age of the dead was forty years. Mostly these were employees engaged in mental work: from software developers to bank employees and employees of insurance companies. Many were at the peak of their careers. About ten people were executives, founders or presidents of companies. At least 59 people have served as vice presidents. Of the identified victims, fifteen were under the age of twenty-one, including three three-year-old children.

As a result of the terrorist attack in Washington, when the plane crashed into the Pentagon building, 184 people were killed: 120 employees and 64 passengers and crew members. 44 people died on a plane that was hijacked by terrorists, but, before reaching Washington, crashed in Pennsylvania. The total number of deaths was more than three thousand people, about six thousand were injured. On September 12, 2001, US President George W. Bush delivered a televised address to the nation in connection with the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. He stated that he ordered the use of "all intelligence and law enforcement resources" of the United States to find and punish the organizers of the attacks. The head of the White House said that the perpetrators of the attacks carried out "an act of mass murder." According to him, the terrorists sought to create chaos in America, but they failed to do so.

On September 15, the President of the United States, in a weekly radio address to the country, said that the United States plans to launch a "comprehensive offensive" against terrorism. The US is planning a "wide and long campaign to defend our country and destroy the evil of terrorism." George W. Bush warned Americans that they will need patience because the coming "conflict will not be short" and decisiveness because "the conflict will not be easy." Bush called the actions of the terrorists "barbaric." He stated that the US will work with other countries of the world, including Russia, India, Pakistan, to punish the perpetrators and organizers of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

It's been 16 years since that day, Nine-Eleven, when Three skyscrapers collapse in New York. No, I'm not wrong. Not two, but three, but for some reason they prefer not to remember the third. And when the third plane crashed into the repaired wing of the Pentagon, and in a strange way almost self-destructed and another fell in the desert. And this is not all the mysteries of the tragedy that happened.

So, on the morning of September 11, 2001, four Boeing planes (two in Boston, one in Washington and another in Newark) were hijacked by some unknown persons, after which the first two planes crashed into the New York skyscrapers WTC-1 and WTC-2, the third hit the wall of the Pentagon, and the fourth crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The two towers of the World Trade Center, attacked by planes, suddenly completely collapsed in a very strange way within an hour and a half, neatly folding inward. Also for some reason completely and neatly collapsed and the neighboring skyscraper WTC 7, although no aircraft hit it.

Only a few days passed after the "acts of terrorism" as the first official version of everything that happened and the performers were named. Osama bin Laden, who led this action from Afghanistan, and, of course, his offspring al-Qaeda, were immediately blamed. Also, the names of all 19 hijackers who abandoned their cars near the airports, in which they found the Koran and instructions in Arabic “How to fly an airplane”, and miraculously found the passports of “terrorists” in the wreckage of the planes. It followed from this that it was urgent to start bombing Afghanistan and invading Iraq.

In the fall of 2002, a special commission was created under the loud name "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States". It was chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean. The commission included former employees CIA, FBI, Department of Justice and other government agencies. Philip Zelikow, a member of the administration of President Bush Jr., who also worked under Bush Sr., led all the actions and the course of the investigation.

The official version mentioned above took its final form on July 22, 2004, when the above-mentioned commission consisting of 83 people completed the report on 585 pages. The Keene Commission report confirmed the above version, which even now remains the only and irrefutable one.

And now let's bring some facts, showing how the US intelligence services are able to "investigate" and get the desired and obviously announced results.

Cell Phones

The official report claims that all information from the Boeing that crashed into the WTC skyscraper was transmitted to the ground via mobile phones. In particular, flight attendant Betty Ong talked for 23 minutes and flight attendant Madeline Sweeney for 25 minutes. Sweeney's last words were: "I see water! I see buildings! .

The fact is that when the phone enters the broadcast area of the base station, or "cell", the so-called "greeting" occurs, which in 2001 took at least eight seconds. The "welcome" system was not designed for driving at a speed of 700 km / h and is possible at a maximum speed of 150 km / h. And only in 2004, Qualcomm, together with American Airlines, developed a system that, using satellite, provides calls to cell phones from an aircraft on which a special mobile base station is installed. On July 15, 2004, a test run of the system was made, after which it began to function.

Cheating with speed

The official report of the Keene Commission provides a diagram of the alleged movement of Flight 175, which crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center, according to which the plane overcame the final straight section from the city of Trenton to New York in four minutes.

And now the fact: The distance between Trenton and New York in a straight line is 85 kilometers. For good measure, you can even consider it equal to 80. According to official data, the plane covered this distance in 4 minutes. Let's find the average speed of the liner in this section: V = 80 km / 4 min = 20 km/min = 1200 km/h. Get the speed of sound.

Of course, the Boeing 767 was not supersonic. IN technical specifications The Boeing 767-200 is said to have a maximum cruising speed at 12 km altitude of 915 km/h. And this is only at an altitude of 12,000 meters, where the air density is five times lower than at sea level, and the liner flew into the building at an altitude of several hundred meters. The same technical specifications say that the maximum allowable speed of the Boeing 767-200 (the so-called Vne - Velocity Never Exceed), exceeding which the aircraft will simply begin to collapse, is 0.86 the speed of sound, that is, about 1000 km / h. Therefore, even if the plane still managed to develop the speed of sound, it would have crumbled long before Manhattan. That is, the official investigation invites everyone to believe in what is physically impossible. So, another lie of the official investigation.

"Twins" could not collapse on their own

According to the official report, the 100-story skyscraper WTC-1 completely collapsed 1 hour 42 minutes after the plane hit, and its twin WTC-2 - 56 minutes later. The reason, of course, is indicated as follows - the impact and the subsequent fire that occurred after the Boeings hit the buildings.

But here some more surprising facts appear.

It turns out that the "Gemini" were designed so that, in addition to the wind load, they could withstand Boeing 707 frontal impact, the largest in those years passenger airliner. In the early 1970s, Leslie Robertson, who built the buildings, calculated the effect of a Boeing 707 colliding with the WTC tower. He reported the results to the New York Times, arguing that the towers would withstand the impact of an airliner flying at a speed of 960 km / h, that is, having taken the impact of the liner, the skyscraper would remain standing without undergoing serious structural damage. In other words, the central frame and the remaining standing perimeter will withstand the additional load resulting from the absence of the demolished part of the supporting structures. It was with such a margin of safety that the "twins" were built.

Frank DeMartini, one of the leaders of the WTC project, confirms this idea: the building is designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 with maximum takeoff weight. It was the largest aircraft of that time. I'm sure the building would have withstood even a few hits from planes, because its structure resembled a fine mosquito net, and the plane is like a pencil that pierces this net and does not affect the structure of the rest of it.

The fire also could not destroy the skyscrapers. Here is evidence that the official report is lying again:

So, the WTC-1 building withstood the first blow. However, in the next hour and a half, something happened as a result of the fire, which provoked the collapse of the tower. By the way, this is the first and only case in world history when a skyscraper actually turns into a pile of ruins as a result of an hour and a half fire - this is according to the official version.

In the mid-1990s, two British firms - British Steel and Building Research Establishment - conducted a series of experiments in the city of Cardington to determine the effect of fires on steel-framed structures. On the experimental model of an eight-story building, the steel structures did not have fire protection. Despite the fact that the temperature of the steel beams reached 900 °C (!) with a critically permissible maximum of 600 °C, in none of the six experiments did failure occur, although certain deformations did occur.

In August 2005, John R. Hall Jr. of the National Fire Protection Association of the United States, published the analytical paper "Fires in Tall Structures". In particular, it provides statistics according to which, in 2002 alone, 7,300 fires occurred in high-rise buildings, many of which were very intense and lasted for many hours, having managed to absorb more than one floor. Despite casualties and significant damage, none of these fires resulted in collapses.

If that's not enough, here are a few more specific examples of some of the worst fires in recent decades:

On February 23, 1991, a fire broke out in the 38-story One Meridian Plaza building in Philadelphia. The fire started on the 22nd floor, engulfed 8 floors and lasted 18 hours. As a result of this fire, a lot of glass was broken, granite cracked and load-bearing walls sank. Nevertheless, the building survived and not a single part of it collapsed.

On May 4, 1988, the 62-story First Interstate Bank building in Los Angeles caught fire. The fire lasted 3.5 hours, 4.5 floors burned out - from the 12th to the 16th. But the load-bearing structures survived completely, and secondary structures and several floors between floors received only minor damage. The building survived.

On August 5, 1970, the 50-story building 1 New York Plaza exploded and started a fire that lasted six hours. There were no collapses.

On October 17, 2004, a skyscraper in the Venezuelan city of Caracas caught fire. The fire broke out at the level of the 34th floor, covered 26 (!) floors and lasted 17 hours. The building survived.

And, finally, a fire in that same New York World Trade Center. February 13, 1975 year, a fire broke out in the north tower on the 11th floor, as a result of which 65% of the floor burned out completely. In addition, the fire spread down to the 9th and up to the 16th floors, but did not affect the office premises and was limited to shafts inside the central frame. The fire lasted three hours, and despite its much higher intensity than September 11, 2001, the structure of the building was not damaged. Not only the central frame remained absolutely unscathed, inside which the fire mainly spread, but also all the interfloor ceilings.

WTC fire in 1975

And the 47-storey "WTC 7" collapsed by itself ... by accident.

The official report claims that the WTC-7 "collapsed" due to the weakening of the supporting structures, despite the fact that no aircraft hit it.

On the demolition of building No. 7 of the World Trade Center As it turned out, very few knew at all. Its destruction somehow passed unnoticed against the background of the rest of the events of that day. This 47-story skyscraper, also called Salomon Brothers, housed the offices of the FBI, the Department of Defense, the 1RS tax service (according to Online Journal, with a huge amount of compromising evidence, including the infamous Enron), counterintelligence United States, the stock exchange (with evidence of stock fraud), and various financial institutions. Its collapse occurred at approximately 17:20 New York time, and several rather curious incidents are associated with it at once.

FEMA claims that this building collapsed for the same reasons as the "twins" - due to the weakening of the supporting structures. But why? The plane did not hit him. Fires did not rage in it - only in three places there were small local fires: on the seventh, twelfth and twenty-ninth floors. If we recall the scheme of the entire World Trade Center, then building No. 7 is the most remote from the "epicenter", separated from the main complex by a street. Where is his injury from? The report is silent on this.

Such a small fire allegedly caused the complete destruction of the WTC-7 building

And the most "truthful" in the world, the BBC even reported about the collapse of WTC-7 in advance.

Indeed, the reportage of the British television channel BBC BBC (BBC) looks unique. In a TV news broadcast that aired at 10:00 London time, that is, at 17:00 New York time, the presenter told viewers that the WTC-7 building in New York had collapsed. But there were still 20 minutes before it collapsed.. Moreover, the correspondent of the channel Jane Standley (Jane Standley), in her live report from New York, talked about the collapse of the WTC-7, being at the same time against its background. A rare photo shows just this moment - the WTC-7 building is indicated by arrows. The caption at the bottom of the screen reads: "The 47-story Salomon Brothers building next to the World shopping center collapsed as well.

BBC talks about the destruction of WTC 7

However, at some point, apparently, the TV people realized what had happened, and at 17:14 the picture of the broadcast from New York was suddenly distorted by interference, and after a few seconds it completely disappeared.

How else to explain this incredible "blunder", if not the presence a pre-written script? Is it possible that the building was planned to be demolished a little earlier, but London simply did not have time to bring information about the delay in this mise-en-scene of the performance, and the British continued to follow the script. So they got the press release before all this happened? But from whom and how?

Of course, such an incident caused a lot of questions to the BBC channel. However, head of news Richard Porter explained the mystery story this way: We are not part of a conspiracy. No one told us what to talk about and what to do on 9/11. No one told us in advance that the building was about to fall. We have not received a press release or a script for what is to come.».

It turns out that if no one told them anything in advance, it means that they themselves, on their own initiative, told about the collapse of the building, which will happen in 20 minutes. But we read further: "We do not have the original recording of the reports from September 11 - not because of a conspiracy, but because of confusion." A news recording of one of the most important days in the history of the channel was suddenly lost.

Dead "terrorists" turned out to be alive

Official list of "hijackers"

The list was accompanied by the following comment: “The FBI has absolute confidence in the accuracy of the identification of the nineteen hijackers responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In addition, the 9/11 investigations were scrutinized by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, and jointly by the Senate and House of Representatives. None of these checks raised the slightest doubt about the identity of the nineteen hijackers."

On September 23, 2001, the British BBC news agency unexpectedly reported that Walid al-Shehri, a Saudi national and named hijacker of Flight AA11, currently alive, well and doing great in Casablanca, Morocco. The Saudi Embassy confirmed that he attended flight school in Daytona Beach, Florida. He left the US in September 2000 and works for Royal Air Morocco. This is further confirmed by the Associated Press, according to which Walid al-Shehri appeared at the American embassy in Morocco: “The FBI released his photograph, which was circulated in newspapers and television news around the world. This same Mr. al-Shehri showed up in Morocco, thus proving that he was not a member of the suicide pilot team. Total minus one.

Wail al-Shehri (AA11) is also alive and well. He is a pilot and his father is a Saudi Arabian diplomat in Bombay. Newspaper Los Angeles The Times, in an article dated September 21, 2001, reports that the head information center Embassy of Saudi Arabia in the United States Gaafar Allagani confirmed that he personally spoke with both father and son. Total minus two.

Abdulaziz al-Omari (AA11) lost his passport while studying in Denver, which he reported to the police at the time. He now works as an engineer at Saudi Telecom. The Telegraph on September 23, 2001 quoted him as saying: “I couldn't believe it when I saw myself on the FBI list. They showed my name, my photo and my date of birth, but I'm not a suicide bomber. I'm here. I'm alive. I have no idea how to fly a plane. I had nothing to do with any of this." Total minus three.

Said al-Ghamdi (UA93), a Saudi Airlines pilot, was in Tunisia during the events of 9/11, where he was taking an Airbus 320 flight course with 22 other pilots. The Telegraph quotes him as saying: “The FBI has provided no evidence of my involvement in the attacks. You have no idea what it's like to be labeled a dead terrorist when I'm alive and innocent." Total minus four.

Ahmed al-Nami (UA93) works as an office manager for Saudi Airlines in Riyadh: “As you can see, I'm alive. I was shocked to see my name on the [terrorist] lists. I've never heard of Pennsylvania, where I happen to have hijacked a plane." Total minus five.

Salem al-Hamzi (AA77) works at a chemical plant in the city of Yanbu, Saudi Arabia: "I've never been to the US and haven't left Saudi Arabia for the last two years." Total minus six.

Khalid al-Midhar (AA77) is a programmer in Mecca, Saudi Arabia: "I like to think that this is some kind of mistake." According to the Chicago Tribune, he was watching TV when his friends started calling him and asking if he was alive. Total minus seven.

P.S. And this is only a small part of the “evidence” found in the “most credible” official investigation into the 9/11 tragedy. But even this, in my opinion, is quite enough to understand by what methods the United States is moving towards its goals, having destroyed more than three thousand Americans. In continuation of the investigation, I will talk about the mysterious plane that crashed into the Pentagon and mysteriously disappeared, and about the other no less mysterious planes of that terrible day - September 11, 2001.

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