Explosions
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Explosions?
Mike Pecoraro
Those accounts include those of Mike Pecoraro, who worked in the 6th sub-basement level of One World Trade Center.
He recalls:
"They got us again," Mike told his co-worker, referring to the terrorist attack at the center in 1993. Having been through that bombing, Mike recalled seeing similar things happen to the building's structure. He was convinced a bomb had gone off in the building." [1]
Being in the 6th sub-basement level, it's entirely likely that he did not see the airplanes crash into the buildings, and the only thing he could conceive of or compare the situation to was the 1993 bombing.
Pecoraro also "smelled kerosene", which is what jet fuel consists of. [2] It's likely that some jet fuel poured down utility shafts and cause explosions and fires on lower levels of the World Trade Center.
What does a controlled demolition really sound like?
Another critical difference between the collapse of the World Trade Center (and Building 7) and actual controlled demolition is how they sound. Sure, there are some firefighter quotes that mention explosions. These quotes are often taken out of context, and simply explain what it sounded like. These "explosion" sounds could have been all sorts of things, such as elevators crashing down the shafts, and there are also quotes from firefighters where they say the people jumping from the buildings and crashing to the ground "sounded like explosions", not to mention debris that rained down, and the initial plane impacts.
- "One gentleman on the 59th floor of the North Tower was ordering food in the cafeteria. That's when he 'heard the explosion' and thought that it was the kitchen oven. He heard that other people said they don't know what it is but it's time to evacuate." -- Oral testimony of Glenn Asaeda, EMS Deputy Medical Director
- Jody Bell, of EMS Battalion 4, described the crash of United Airlines Flight 175, "We then hear this explosion. We hear this explosion, and our first reaction is the plane was lodged in the building and it exploded or parts of it were still in the building and that exploded. Then people were screaming that another plane hit."
When people say they "heard explosions" or it "sounded like an explosion", it does not necessarily mean a "bomb exploded". There are numerous other, more likely explanations.
Now, when an actual controlled demolition occurs, the sound of the charges going off is a very distinct sound. They are exeremely loud (cannot possibly be missed) and heard repeatedly for numerous seconds. In the demolition (See video) of the Tencza Apartments, a 12 story building, the charges went off for 10 seconds before the building started to collapse. That sound was not heard on 9/11, when the twin towers collapsed, nor when 7 World Trade Center collapsed. It's not heard in any videos, nor heard by eyewitnesses.
Logistics?
Conspiracy theorists are short on explanations as to how explosives could have been planted in the World Trade Center, which were occupied by companies involved in the global 24 x 7 marketplace.
- The demolition theory has managed to endure what would seem to be enormous obstacles to its practicality. Controlled demolition is done from the bottom of buildings, not the top, to take advantage of gravity, and there is little dispute that the collapse of the two towers began high in the towers, in the areas where the airplanes struck.
- Moreover, a demolition project would have required the tower walls to be opened on dozens of floors, followed by the insertion of thousands of pounds of explosives, fuses and ignition mechanisms, all sneaked past the security stations, inside hundreds of feet of walls on all four faces of both buildings. Then the walls presumably would have been closed up.
- All this would have had to take place without attracting the notice of any of the thousands of tenants and workers in either building; no witness has ever reported such activity. Then on the morning of Sept. 11, the demolition explosives would have had to withstand the impacts of the airplanes, since the collapse did not begin for 57 minutes in one tower, and 102 minutes in the other.[1]