Ruling out a bomb on the ground level: Burn victims on first floor of WTC towers

Originally posted by manmental
How come no-one has said that the sounds of explosions heard in the lobby might have been the elevators crashing to the basement and 'exploding'.

If this is an elevator crashing to the ground then, Otis was in the wrong business!



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Originally posted by manmental
How come no-one has said that the sounds of explosions heard in the lobby might have been the elevators crashing to the basement and 'exploding'.

Maybe because we've actually read the witness testimonies.

There was a fireball, that came up the elevator shafts from the basement floors, and caused a lot of damage and seriously injured people. It destroyed a 300-lb fire door. It blew out the lobby windows, blew out elevator shafts and knocked ceiling tiles off.

How does an elevator free-falling without its brakes catching do this?

Originally posted by bsbray11

Originally posted by manmental
How come no-one has said that the sounds of explosions heard in the lobby might have been the elevators crashing to the basement and 'exploding'.

Maybe because we've actually read the witness testimonies.

There was a fireball, that came up the elevator shafts from the basement floors, and caused a lot of damage and seriously injured people. It destroyed a 300-lb fire door. It blew out the lobby windows, blew out elevator shafts and knocked ceiling tiles off.

How does an elevator free-falling without its brakes catching do this?

Also remember that an elevator freefalling in a sealed elevator shaft designed to eliminate a chimney effect feeding fires up above, will be compressing the air below it, slowing the elevator and lessening its speed downward.

Just like an auto shock absorber.

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What I know of elevator shafts is there is very little room to the sides of the elevator. You are right the elevator should have cushioned the blast slightly or stopped it entirely if it were jet fuel.