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/graceful_mango 5d ago
I was on my way to class and heard about the building getting a hit a few minutes after the first plane. When I got to my friends house to watch the news they were about to replay the first tower collapsing when the second tower collapsed and it took several minutes for it to register in my brain that i was watching everything live.
My one class before they canceled the day and evacuated the campus (of 50k students and faculty) had a teacher from France with Opinions who used the hour and a half to rant about America. Maybe not the best way to read the room.