r/NoStupidQuestions • u/JMRooDukes808 • 6d ago

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

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

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u/P3for2 6d ago

The WTC has a lot of history of getting attacked. This is why when the first plane hit the first tower, I thought it was a bomb (I hadn't seen the plane). And to be honest, I didn't pay much attention, not until that second plane hit.

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u/GTOdriver04 6d ago

My mom’s first reaction to hearing the news was “so, they finally got them.”

I later read up about how they had tried before and failed. My mom was upset, as were we all, but she wasn’t surprised that they tried again.

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u/AffectionateMoose518 6d ago

It's still kinda crazy to me how nobody really did that much to prevent future attacks after the 93 bombing. But then again, things don't often get done well or at all until there's proof it's absolutely necessary, and since the bombing didn't end up doing much whatsoever, but the planes crashing into the towers did, I suppose it was the wakeup call to be more cautious and much safer with things like that

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u/Slut_Abuser_69 6d ago

In 1993 we weren’t living in an “age of terror” yet, and it was still part of the culture here in NY to take shit like that in stride. 9/11 actually changed the city on a cultural level