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Fire stairs, like, a single column of stairs, or, multiple columns? If they were placed near each corner, some of them should have survived until collapse. Imp
by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Fire stairs, like, a single column of stairs, or, multiple columns? If they were placed near each corner, some of them should have survived until collapse.
Impact by planes had been imagined prior to the crashes, but I don't know if it had been by the designers. Considering these were very tall structures, it seems likely someone would have at least briefly imagined it.
- mcjiggerlog 10y agoThere were 3 stairwells in each building. Here's an excerpt from this fascinating wikipedia page[1] about one of the only four people to make it out from above the impact in the South tower: "The airliner that struck the North Tower struck it perpendicular to the north face. The impact severed all the elevators and all three stairwells. The airliner that struck the South Tower struck at an angle, severing two stairwells, but it left Stairway A, the one they were using, more or less intact." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Clark_(September_11_survivor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Clark_(September_11_surv...