WI: Only one plane manages to crash on 9/11

As today is the 14 year mark since 9/11/01, I have a question.

What if only one plane was able to his the South Tower, while the terrorists who crashed into the Pentagon and the North Tower were unable to board; Flight 93 manages to get landed after reestablishing control of the plane, landing at Pitsburgh or Cleveland.

What effect would this have on the American psyche? Would the North Tower come down? And how would this affect the greater world afterwards?
 
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shiftygiant

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The South Tower coming down is going to seriously damage the foundations; North Tower will probably still come down, or be taken down due to the instability of the foundations, like some of the other WTC buildings were.
 
There was a thread on this a few years ago I saw. The basic premise was that the planes hit both towers but they still stood.. Even so, they would have to be taken down in a massive effort that would take years, probably ending either right around now or a few years before or after in OTL.

If only one tower gets hit I don't believe the other one will fall, maybe a few weeks/months later if nothing is done.

You have alot less deaths but the clean up project is even more intensive. First you have to clean up ground zero, then you most likely have to tear down the standing tower. Out of all three scenarios, both towers fall, both are left standing, this, with one tower falling, is the most expensive. You have the added problems of both TLs, clean up and demo work.

Hell ground zero may take even longer to clean up and alot of the survivors die because no one is sure if its safe to do rescue operations with the other tower's foundation weakened.

As for TL effects, besides less deaths, not much changes, save for the public outraged at the fact we have to tear down our own tower.
 
As today is the 14 year mark since 9/11/02, I have a question.

What if only one plane was able to his the South Tower, while the terrorists who crashed into the Pentagon and the North Tower were unable to board; Flight 93 manages to get landed after reestablishing control of the plane, landing at Pitsburgh or Cleveland.

What effect would this have on the American psyche? Would the North Tower come down? And how would this affect the greater world afterwards?

You're off by a year.
 
Well, 7 World Trade Center was hit by debris and fell down. If one tower went down, the other one is close behind

Actually, it wasn't hit by debris. It was clearly standing strong. However, there was a news report saying that 7 World Trade Center collapsed, but it is seen in the background that the building was still STANDING at the time of the report, and exploded mysteriously afterwards.

And Bush's speech on 9/11 is why some people are convinced it was an inside job. He was asked what he was doing during the 9/11 attack. He responded by saying that he watched the first tower get hit by the plane on TV. This was utter BS because there was only one person that was able to film the first tower being hit, but that film was only given to the media the day after.
 
Actually, it wasn't hit by debris. It was clearly standing strong. However, there was a news report saying that 7 World Trade Center collapsed, but it is seen in the background that the building was still STANDING at the time of the report, and exploded mysteriously afterwards.

And Bush's speech on 9/11 is why some people are convinced it was an inside job. He was asked what he was doing during the 9/11 attack. He responded by saying that he watched the first tower get hit by the plane on TV. This was utter BS because there was only one person that was able to film the first tower being hit, but that film was only given to the media the day after.

I would give you a link a site that refuted this nonsense, but you'd just dismiss it as another "official story" website.
 

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Actually, it wasn't hit by debris. It was clearly standing strong. However, there was a news report saying that 7 World Trade Center collapsed, but it is seen in the background that the building was still STANDING at the time of the report, and exploded mysteriously afterwards.

And Bush's speech on 9/11 is why some people are convinced it was an inside job. He was asked what he was doing during the 9/11 attack. He responded by saying that he watched the first tower get hit by the plane on TV. This was utter BS because there was only one person that was able to film the first tower being hit, but that film was only given to the media the day after.

Oh, please do elaborate on this position.
 
I would give you a link a site that refuted this nonsense, but you'd just dismiss it as another "official story" website.

Link please for perhaps the what more sensible people on here? Tried to find some more info on it myself, but it mostly landed me on sites that try to confirm that bullshit. :(

The South Tower coming down is going to seriously damage the foundations; North Tower will probably still come down, or be taken down due to the instability of the foundations, like some of the other WTC buildings were.

I always wondered how they would have taken down the North Tower if the foundations really were that damaged. If the foundations are that unstable, bringing the tower down with explosives would be very risky, while taking it down piece by piece like they did with Yankee Stadium (so with the North Tower probably floor by floor) could equally be a dangerous operation.

Also there would very likely be public outcry to save North Tower at whatever cost. With the sense of nationalism and everything right after 9/11, I could actually see authorities giving in to this sentiment.
 
Well, 7 World Trade Center was hit by debris and fell down. If one tower went down, the other one is close behind

Yeah but you can argue that 7 WTC was in a postion for that to happen since it directly below the towers and thus got creamed by both towers debris. If the North Tower didn't get hit then its still an issue and its still dangerous and most likely gonna come down but like I said, maybe not for weeks. Maybe days if the foundation was really that weak.

I could see a scenario where they evac everyone and don't start clean up and rescue operations until the North Tower gives.
 

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And Bush's speech on 9/11 is why some people are convinced it was an inside job. He was asked what he was doing during the 9/11 attack. He responded by saying that he watched the first tower get hit by the plane on TV. This was utter BS because there was only one person that was able to film the first tower being hit, but that film was only given to the media the day after.

There was video of the second tower being hit, so he might have confused the two.
 
Actually, it wasn't hit by debris. It was clearly standing strong. However, there was a news report saying that 7 World Trade Center collapsed, but it is seen in the background that the building was still STANDING at the time of the report, and exploded mysteriously afterwards.


Two points on this.

7WTC absolutely was hit by debris from 1 WTC, and there is enough eyewitness, video and photographic evidence attesting to the hit and the floors high hole in 7 that resulted to put that beyond doubt. The simultaneous fires on multiple floors were also an indication it wasn't "standing strong" as if it were entirely intact and undamaged.

People keep bringing up this BBC news report like it means something. It doesn't. How many times have you seen live to air news coverage of a developing story get major details wrong? It happens all the time. That it happened here is not unusual - most likely someone garbled a report that 7 was in danger of collapse into had collapsed, and 7 not being that well known a building the fact that it was still visibly standing didn't get noticed.
That's a shedload more believable that some shadowy "them" giving news agencies some kind of script or timeline to report, when those agencies would report the event as it happened anyway. What could any covert operation possibly gain by risking compromise like this?

I also find it amusing that generally the people who bring up that report routinely dismiss the media as disinformation, yet treat this particular report as 100% super accurate.
 
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Link please for perhaps the what more sensible people on here? Tried to find some more info on it myself, but it mostly landed me on sites that try to confirm that bullshit. :(

Here you go:
http://www.911myths.com/html/wtc7_damage.html


http://www.debunking911.com/WTC7.htm

"No plane hit 7WTC" is a common refrain among some people, but for some reason those people almost never mention that 7 got smashed in the face by hundreds of tonnes of debris falling from a great height.
 
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As today is the 14 year mark since 9/11/01, I have a question.

What if only one plane was able to his the South Tower, while the terrorists who crashed into the Pentagon and the North Tower were unable to board; Flight 93 manages to get landed after reestablishing control of the plane, landing at Pitsburgh or Cleveland.

What effect would this have on the American psyche? Would the North Tower come down? And how would this affect the greater world afterwards?

I think this would *seriously* boost claims that actually it was an accident or at any rate the act of a lone nutter - that the "terrorists" arrested on Flight 93 were just scapegoats to reinforce (for the Administration's nefarious purposes) the narrative of a nonexistent super-terrorist network and justify "war for oil". Conspiracy theory central, basically. Of course, there'd be loads of evidence to the contrary, but since when does that stop anybody?
 
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