You're correct inasmuch as you use the conditional during the free fall. What is relevant in explaining the collapse is to understand what was happening before the building began to fall. Note the following eyewitness accounts.LoveIsTruth wrote:BlueMoon5 wrote: . . . During the free fall there was no twisting my friend. Watch it again. . . .
"The biggest decision we had to make was to clear the area and create a collapse zone around the severely damaged [WTC7] building. A number of fire officers and companies assessed the damage to the building. The appraisals indicated the building's integrity was in serious doubt. . . .
It had very heavy fire on many floors and I ordered the evacuation of an area around to protect our members." --Daniel Nigro, FDNY Chief of Operations [In other words, the building showed signs of pending collapse but no CD-type explosions were heard. Those signs were manifest for at least three hours before the collapse.]
More from Chief Nigro: "There had to be a hole 20 stories tall in the building, with fire on several floors. Debris was falling down on the building and it didn't look good. . . . Debris was hitting the sidewalk across the street, but eventually they [firefighters] pulled back too. . . . The building didn't look good. I was figuring probably the standpipe systems were shot. There was no hydrant pressure. . . . this other officer I'm standing next to said, '[the] building doesn't look straight.' . . . I'm looking at the building. It didn't look right. [When] we were about a hundred yards away. . .Butch Brandeis came running up. He said 'forget it, nobody's going into 7, there's creaking, there are noises coming out of there." Another firefighter said to Nigro: "They told us to get out of there because they were worried about 7 WTC. . . . Finally they pulled us out." Still another firefighter said: "Seven WTC was burning from the ground to the ceiling, fully involved." And yet another: "There was a huge gaping hole and it was scattered through there. It was a huge hole. I would say probably a third of it, right in the middle of it" [emphases added]. (Multiple sources; enter "firefighters' eyewitness accounts of WTC7" into your search engine.)
The building burned for about seven hours. It showed signs of pending collapse for three hours before it fell. No CD-type explosions were heard before it immediately collapsed. Moreover, it didn't fall neatly into its own footprint. The claim that pre-planted explosions were used to reduce it to rubble is rubbish.







