• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    The B-25 bomber and Boeing 767 airliner are two very differet aircraft.

    The WTC towers and the Empire State Building were also very different buildings.

    So there events are not really comparable.

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      6 months ago

      The point was that New York City saw a large plane hit one of its largest buildings. The failure mode was known. It just happened to be that no one cared to design for that failure mode later.

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        6 months ago

        The last plane crash into a building in NY before 2001 was back in 1946, when a transport aircraft from the US Army Air Forces flew into 40 Wall Street.

        That was 55 years before 9/11, and 20 years before construction of the twin towers was started, it was believed to be a solved problem, which in context wasn’t that unreasonable.