Reply #12: If you've ever been inside the towers, the images make sense [View All]

[HamdenRice]

The towers had a deceiving visual quality. From the outside, and far away, they looked like they had an metal "skin". But from inside you would immediately notice that the surface was mostly glass. One of the most fun things about visiting the inside observation deck of the south tower was that you could press right up against the floor to almost ceiling windows and look straight down. It was a dizzying experience, and some friends visiting NYC would refuse to come close to those amazing windows.

My sense of the video is that the planes were basically shredded between the upright steel beams and but passed through the mostly glass curtain wall. That's why a shredded plane and explosive jet fuel explodes out the other side of the tower after each impact.

So my 2 cents: the visual are exactly what I would expect when a jet crashes into a glass curtain wall skyscraper.

On the other hand, I agree with your overall idea that we should not believe everything we see.