7 World Trade Center was a 47-story steel-framed skyscraper that stood across Vesey Street north of the main WTC complex. Its tenants included the CIA, Department of Defense, IRS, Secret Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the City of New York emergency management center. Though not hit by a plane, it collapsed at about 5:20 p.m. EDT on the evening of September 11, 2001.
Some journalists commenting on the nature of the collapse of WTC 7 said that it resembled a controlled demolition, although the explanation that fires in the building, started by falling debris from the collapse of WTC 1, had caused the structure to fail, quickly emerged. No steel-frame high rise had ever before collapsed because of a fire.[31] BBC News reported the collapse of WTC 7 twenty minutes before it actually fell. The BBC has stated that many news sources were reporting the imminent collapse of WTC 7 on the day of the attacks. The reporter who announced the collapse prematurely Jane Stanley called it a "very small and very honest mistake" caused by her thinking on her feet after being confronted with a report she had no way of checking.
In addition to its remaining unexplained, proponents of controlled demolition often emphasize the collapse of WTC 7 because its collapse looked like a bottom-to-top conventional controlled demolition, as opposed to the more explosive top-to-bottom collapses of the two main towers. Support for this theory comes from features argued to have been visually observed in the collapse--the speed of the collapse, the way it fell down vertically and symmetrically, the rapid onset, the way the center of the roof fell first, lateral ejections of debris observed, and the way the rubble fell mostly within the building's footprint.[citation needed] The initial FEMA investigation team also found sulfur within the structural steel from WTC 7 which they could not explain: "The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of Samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified. The rate of corrosion is also unknown. It is possible that this is the result of long-term heating in the ground following the collapse of the buildings. It is also possible that the phenomenon started prior to collapse and accelerated the weakening of the steel structure. A detailed study into the mechanisms of this phenomenon is needed to determine what risk, if any, is presented to existing steel structures exposed to severe and long-burning fires." Steven Jones claims that sulphur is evidence that indicates the use of explosives such as thermate, along with reports of molten metal and extremely high temperatures in the rubble. However, Prof. Richard Sisson asserts that the sulfur came from gypsum in the wallboards.
WTC 7 at the moment of collapse: the shape of the roof and debris plumes are cited as evidence for controlled demolition.In the PBS documentary America Rebuilds, which aired in September 2002, Larry Silverstein, the owner of WTC 7 and leaseholder and insurance policy holder for the remainder of the WTC Complex, recalled a discussion with the fire department in which doubts about containing the fires were expressed. Silverstein recalled saying, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it". "They made that decision to pull", he recalled, "and we watched the building collapse." Some proponents of the controlled demolition hypothesis have taken the remark as a confession that he ordered the building to be demolished. Silverstein issued a statement that rejects this interpretation, asserting that it was the firefighting team, not the building, that was to be pulled.
Hugo Bachmann and Jörg Schneider, professors emeritus of structural engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, believe that WTC 7 was intentionally demolished based on video footage. The 9/11 Family Steering Committee also asked what happened to WTC 7 in their 'Questions Regarding the 9/11 Commission Interview of Mayor Rudy Giuliani,' asking, "On 9/11, no aircraft hit WTC 7. Why did the building fall at 5:20 PM that evening?"
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New Footage of WTC7 Controlled Demolition!!by 911TruthVideos1,653 views
a perfect demolition
firestones18 4 months ago
Explosives!
mikestheman3 6 months ago
@nexttheworld yeah it's true our gov. sucks and is corrupt 50% or us are waiting for the revolution
grimrotten 9 months ago
I don't say Americans are fraud, but your government is a fraud.
If your parents contrived all of these, what do you want to say about the Iraqi War, invasion in Afghanistan, war on terrorism?
The nuclear weapon was not found in Iraq, after all.
You created the principle of dirty financial capital such as the issue of subprime loan.
What an America!
nexttheworld 9 months ago
Why, after destroying the two main towers, would it be necessary to destroy a third smaller tower? Doesn't make sense. Haven't any of you conspiracy buffs thought about that?
These were three badly built structures - lots of cut corners, bad engineering.
bogglerful 10 months ago
Where are any video footage of the building 7 after the fall? From a very small fire the whole building falls??? Why are matches still allowed in buildings at all?
Believe me only government paid big mouths respond to conspiracy theories. There was a conspiracy to destroy these buildings that's a fact.
TheBelldiver 11 months ago
Anyone who doesn't see this as a controlled demo job is simply a government lier
TheBelldiver 11 months ago
Simply put: it was a top-heavy buidling with reduced lateral and virtical support elements in the bottom 7 floors, to accomodate the ConEd substation. The failure came from above where the mass was greater and where the greater potential energy was concentrated and where the lower floors would be unable to resist the failure of those elements. Once one failed, others failed, until the whole thing could no longer remain at rest. This building was doomed to collapse. Short and sweet.
Slipstream300 1 year ago 2
@Matu1 Come back when you don't fail every test to this; atheismresource*com/wp-content/uploads/Debate-Flow-Chart.jpg
koncorde 1 year ago
@koncorde
I will let you comment here alone because you obviously do not debate you are just denying, comment after commen "nano thermite = junk science! freefall = does not prove anything! AE911Truth = not real architects and engineers!
Only what you do is just bash people... There is no point for me to connect dots for you, you are a denier.
Matu1 1 year ago