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Thursday, 22 February 2007
What the World Trade Center Building Designers Said: Before and After 9/11
'A three-page white paper, dated February 3,1964, described its findings: “The buildings have been investigated and found to be safe in an assumed collision with a large jet airliner (Boeing 707—DC 8) traveling at 600 miles per hour. Analysis indicates that such collision would result in only local damage which could not cause collapse or substantial damage to the building and would not endanger the lives and safety of occupants not in the immediate area of impact".
