Do you think the 9/11 hijackers knew that the WTC buildings would collapse?

[u/JMRooDukes808]

I really don’t know where else to ask this. There is obviously an overload of information about the event itself online, but one thing I can’t find out is if the hijackers intended to, or knew that the WTC buildings would collapse. Do you think they just planned on the impact and fires to be the extent of the damage caused? As far as I know, no steel structure buildings in history had collapsed from fire at that point, so it makes me wonder if they actually “succeeded” in their plan more than they intended.

Edit: no conspiracies please, that was not the point of my post

[u/BearMeatFiesta]

Part of the reason that the pentagon did not sustain more damage is because the section the plane hit had recently been renovated. If the plane had hit a section of the pentagon it would have done way more damage.

Source my father was working at the pentagon when the plane hit. I worked at the pentagon several years later (about 8 years later) and have gone to the sector that was hit. There is a chapel and a memorial in that sector now. Very pretty, didn't see it get used much.

[u/Prestigious-Flower54 → u/BearMeatFiesta]

This is actually part of what fueled the inside job conspiracy. People found it too convenient the plan hit a section that was being renovated.

[u/oisiiuso → u/Prestigious-Flower54]

dumbasses act like it was so improbable and not a one in five chance.

[u/ShouldersofGiants100 → u/oisiiuso]

dumbasses act like it was so improbable and not a one in five chance.

Less than one in five.

The Pentagon has a large parking lot that is then immediately next to a raised highway. It would be incredibly difficult to hit either of the southern sides as a result (especially if you're a pilot operating the plane for the only time, at max speed and you get one shot). From where they were flying, it was literally the only side they could target.

[u/gsfgf → u/ShouldersofGiants100]

Though, I think the fortification program was anticipating a truck bomb not a plane. Luckily, they started with the sector a plane would line up on.

[u/c_the_potts → u/ShouldersofGiants100]

And there are a bunch of high-rises just south of the highway too which doesn’t help either

[u/grandoz039 → u/ShouldersofGiants100]

You mean more than one in five, right?

[u/ShouldersofGiants100 → u/grandoz039]

Yeah, that one was a misspeak.

[u/ohkaycue → u/ShouldersofGiants100]

The joys of fractions lol

[u/BleedingShaft → u/ShouldersofGiants100]

I mean conspiracies aside though how often is the Pentagon being renovated throughout the years? I don't think theres anything probable about the event.

[u/BearMeatFiesta → u/BleedingShaft]

It is not renovated often, when I was working there in 2010 there were sections that were old. Think 80’s type stuff, there were definitely areas that hadn’t been updated since the 60’s.