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How wide were the trade centers?

Asked by Dutchess_III (47069points) September 11th, 2017

People are saying the planes were longer than the Trade Centers were wide. And we all know what THAT means.
The planes were 200 feet long and I’m sure the WTCs were way wider than that but I suck at eyeballing dimensions and I can’t find any specs for the width on them.

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Dutchess_III's avatar

I found some thing by Googling side by side comparison of the WTC and a 767 but I can’t figure out how to copy the link! Grrr.

The Building is wider but not by much.

dappled_leaves's avatar

“And we all know what THAT means.”

I’ll bite. What does that mean?

zenvelo's avatar

They were 208’ square.

ragingloli's avatar

Apparently wide enough for barely trained, inexperienced rookie pilots, whose passports miraculously survived an inferno fierce enough to collapse skyscrapers.

ucme's avatar

In obese eeh-merry-ka all buildings must be twice the width of other nations…fun fact.

Dutchess_III's avatar

@ragingloli if you’re going to die in the end why would you care how much experience you have or don’t have? They can fly the planes. Hell you or I could fly a plane once it’s airborne, with some instruction. And they only had to fly them once.

@dappled_leaves conspiracy bullshit. The planes were longer than the buildings were wide. Why weren’t the planes sticking out??? The answer “Because they were obliterated when they hit,” does not satisfy the conspiracy bullshit.

zenvelo's avatar

@Dutchess_III Have you ever seen a car after it hits something? The car crumples, and is not as long as it was before.

Same thing happens when you fly a plan into a building. The front crumples, the momentum of the back of the plane continues to move forward.

I have looked at a lot of the conspiracy bullshit; the idea that “the planes were too long” is pure crap.

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