The simulation found jet engine shafts from airlines flown into the World Trade Center "flew through the building like bullets," according to an Associated Press vide report.
Flaming jet fuel cascaded through the tower stripping away fireproofing material and causing the building to collapse, the AP video reports.
"The weight of the aircraft's fuel, when ignited, acted like a flash flood of flaming liquid," according to the video.
"One of the problems is sometimes determining who exactly caused the casualties. It's not always clear if a civilian casualty is caused by an extremist or coalition forces."
Major Chris Belcher, US spokesman, Afghanistan, June 23 2007
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This hauntingly beautiful noctilucent cloud was photographed over the Juneau, Alaska, ice field in 1998. Once confined to Earth's poles, the clouds have been spotted above Colorado. |
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Children play in an Athens park in front of smoke from a forest fire in Dervenohoria, north-west of the capital |
DELUGE: An aerial view of flooded homes in Catcliffe near Sheffield. |
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