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Disclaimer: I'm not an expert in structural engineering nor impact and flight dynamics, so forgive me my errors but don't hesitate to point them out. I am also emphatically NOT a conspiracy theorist and never have been nor will be.

I'm not sure what PoD would be required. Perhaps only a slight deviation in flight path could have resulted in one of the planes missing, or at least causing less damage to, the critical structural core. Ignoring for a moment the how of it, I present the scenario of both planes somehow striking the twin towers of the world trade center, and the buildings somehow not collapsing. The fire is eventually extinguished, debris flushed out, and work begins on figuring out what to do with two catastrophically damaged but still standing skyscrapers that spent two years being the tallest buildings in the world.

How would the authorities have dealt with the buildings? How would the perception and the reality of the disaster and its aftermath be changed? What are some subtle social and political consequences, if any?
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