china's tallest building catches fire, doesn't collapse Options

[Seeker]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/augus...ot_collapse.htm

i thought all giant steel buildings collapsed when they catch on fire?

only thermite specially placed on the support columns and synchronized to go off bring down giant steel buildings

[nattyice]

or burning jet fuel from a plane that just crashed into it perhaps?

I must have missed the part where it said the chinese building was lit on fire with 60,000 gallons of jet fuel.

The planes that hit the twin towers had a max fuel capacity of around 11,000 gallons, but were destined for short routes so probably had much less than that on board.

[Hartmann]

The planes that hit the twin towers had a max fuel capacity of around 11,000 gallons, but were destined for short routes so probably had much less than that on board.

Uh, BOS-LAX (UA Flight 175, North Tower) that's a longhaul flight, one that would have been fully loaded with fuel, especially with the low load of people it was carrying, probably doubled as a mail hauler.

BOS-LAX (AA Flight 11, South Tower), another longhaul flight, same equipment. Larger load, more than likely full of fuel, anticipating delays at BOS (which there were).

Also, A 767-200 carries right at 23,000 gallons of fuel fully loaded.

The plane that crashed in Shanksville and the one that hit the Pentagon were both 757-200s, single-aisle, transcon aircraft.