[gridlock]

The planes that the the World Trade Center could have cause more mayhem if they had hit lower, but we can't know the pilot's intention.

This has got to be the stupidest thing I have seen all year. Against some pretty stiff competition, BTW. How in the world do you cause more mayhem than the complete destruction of two 110 story skyscrapers by hitting them lower? They don't topple like trees, you know...

If the towers had been hit lower, I guess they might have collapsed somewhat faster. But they still would have fallen straight down.

[DBrow]

I agree, enough mayhem would have been caused even if they had hit higher, or off-center.

My 333 post link states that the flight control centers were being hit with bomb threats every few minutes- that was news to me.

Remember the first WTC attack by al Queda? If the bomb had been closer to the pillar the tower would have come down.

[eno_]

The objective of the first WTC attack was to topple one tower into the other. So it is possible the 9/11 hijackers meant to make the towers topple over, too.

[Our man in washington]

I wrote:

"The planes that the the World Trade Center could have cause more mayhem if they had hit lower, but we can't know the pilot's intention."

Gridlock replied:

"This has got to be the stupidest thing I have seen all year. Against some pretty stiff competition, BTW. How in the world do you cause more mayhem than the complete destruction of two 110 story skyscrapers by hitting them lower? They don't topple like trees, you know...

If the towers had been hit lower, I guess they might have collapsed somewhat faster. But they still would have fallen straight down."

I reply again:

Aw, come on. The guys at DU write stupider stuff than mine 100 times each day. But anyway, if the planes hit lower, a lot more people would have died. I should have said "casualties" rather than mayhem. True, the mayhem factor would be about the same.

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How in the world do you cause more mayhem than the complete destruction of two 110 story skyscrapers by hitting them lower?

In one of the buildings, nobody above the point of impact managed to escape. Those were the people jumping.

Obviously, if the point of impact were lower, more people would have died.