SIAM: Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse?

Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse?

October 13, 2001

Each tower of the World Trade Center was designed to withstand, as a whole, the horizontal impact of a large commercial aircraft. Why, then, did total collapse occur?

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