[Teacher317]

By the time the helicopters would have found pilots, gone through pre-flight checks, taken off into SUDDENLY VERY QUESTIONABLE airspace, and landed on the roof... the towers would have collapsed. (It was only about 30 minutes, IIRC). Most likely, they would not have saved a soul, and may have been lost themselves.

[hellinahandcart]

(It was only about 30 minutes, IIRC).

I thought the same thing, so imagine my surprise the next day when I learned that Tower 2 fell after 40 minutes but Tower 1, the first tower hit, stayed up for about an hour and a half total.

Of course, I have a different problem altogether as an excuse--"lost time"--I cannot account for the hour-and-a-half after the first collapse, and have no real-time memory at all of Tower 1 coming down. Didn't see it until the next day on television repeats, when it came as a real shock.

Six weeks later I still can't fill in the blank.