The Twin Towers brought down by controlled demolition?

This is a key point.

More than likely, even if both planes miss the buildings except for one wing, the resto the planes will simply smash into other parts of Manhattan.

Your looking at 1,000 dead easy.

Even the first plane that was heading south considering that WTC stood almost on the end. Then they were wery tall and the motion of the plane itself were hundreds of km/h in a horisontal way. Wouldnt the plane begin to spin around on its axis while it decended in a 45 degree angle?
 
The WTC was built to pancake at time of demolition. It was built with 1960s and 1970s technological improvements in architectural engineering. If for example the empire state building had been hit like the WTC it would have toppled sideways and we would be looking at 50,000 dead.
I would say that with controlled demolition they could bring down the tower with minimum damage to surrounding buildings. The biggest issue would be raising a cloth barrier big enough to keep the asbestos cloud from spreading all over Manhattan. I still think there needs to be an inquiry in real life into the fact that the asbestos was never removed and replaced with safer fire suppressing techniques.
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Even the first plane that was heading south considering that WTC stood almost on the end. Then they were wery tall and the motion of the plane itself were hundreds of km/h in a horisontal way. Wouldnt the plane begin to spin around on its axis while it decended in a 45 degree angle?

The planes would spiral off after the impact, and I make mention of that, I am just unsure how far they would go before impacting the ground.

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Weren't there a few people who made it out of one tower above the point of impact?

Yes, but only in the second tower hit because the plane banked just before impact and missed stairwell A allowing a few more to survive. Wounder if the pilot made some sort of error while flying because the first attack went in head on
 
A variation on this idea could be the second aircraft selecting the wrong building and having one tower hit twice and the other untouched. Interestingly, this could actually end up creating a more effective attack: The hit tower would collapse much quicker and would result in more fatalities.
 
I can't remember the source I read this in -- it was years ago -- but I recall that when it proves necessary to demolish a building, but controlled demolition has too great a risk of damaging nearby structures, engineers "raze" the building. This is done by literally disassembling the building from the top down. Cranes are put on scaffolding and remove pieces of it, which are then transported down to the ground, and then trucked away. Then the next floor down, and so on. I remember that the article I read this in said the building concerned was being shortened at one floor a week, but I don't recall the building and I don't know its horizontal dimensions as compared with the WTC.

Another problem with a true controlled demolition of the World Trade Center would be the health effects -- the WTC contained asbestos, cadmium, and lots of other toxic stuff and it through the atmosphere would (and in our timeline, did) cause severe health conditions.
 
A variation on this idea could be the second aircraft selecting the wrong building and having one tower hit twice and the other untouched. Interestingly, this could actually end up creating a more effective attack: The hit tower would collapse much quicker and would result in more fatalities.

If that was the case then the collapse would pretty much depend on were the impact was. If the plane it in the already damaged and burning area then the collapse would be within a few minutes. Above or under then the tower collapses around the same time as the second tower hit imho.

How would this affect the unaffected tower?
 
If that was the case then the collapse would pretty much depend on were the impact was. If the plane it in the already damaged and burning area then the collapse would be within a few minutes. Above or under then the tower collapses around the same time as the second tower hit imho.

How would this affect the unaffected tower?

Depends a lot on the exact spread of the debris. We could again have a Deutsche Bank situation where the building isn't bought down, but enough external damage is done by large pieces of debris to require deconstruction.
 
I can't remember the source I read this in -- it was years ago -- but I recall that when it proves necessary to demolish a building, but controlled demolition has too great a risk of damaging nearby structures, engineers "raze" the building. This is done by literally disassembling the building from the top down. Cranes are put on scaffolding and remove pieces of it, which are then transported down to the ground, and then trucked away. Then the next floor down, and so on. I remember that the article I read this in said the building concerned was being shortened at one floor a week, but I don't recall the building and I don't know its horizontal dimensions as compared with the WTC.

Another problem with a true controlled demolition of the World Trade Center would be the health effects -- the WTC contained asbestos, cadmium, and lots of other toxic stuff and it through the atmosphere would (and in our timeline, did) cause severe health conditions.

I remember now, it was an article about the Deutsch Bank building near the WTC, which had been so badly damaged by falling debris that it was deemed unsafe.
 
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