[RoughDobermann]

DC was missed altogether and WTC was botched.

The WTC was botched? How so?

[John Jamieson]

WTC: First plane was too high, Second plane was 18 minutes late, not level or centered. The goal was surely 20,000+.

[Alberta's Child]

I've read in a couple of places that the planes were supposed to arrive closer together, and that the first building stood for much longer than expected because the plane hit it too close to the top.

Although a death toll in excess of 5,000 is incomprehensible, the fact that there were 50,000 to 60,000 people in those buildings and another several thousand on the adjacent streets and in the concourse area below makes the death toll in New York miraculously low.