Reply #116: For WTC2, NIST claims they could not get the plans from the PA

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for any of the floors in the impact zone except for the 78th floor. They based all of their modeling on that one floor. Supposedly they used anecdotal evidence to adjust for some of the differences between floors, but it appears they missed some major differences.

Surprisingly, the man who was one of the lead investigators complained that he could not get access to a lot of the documents, building plans, pictures and videos that he would have liked to have seen. Makes it difficult to do much of an investigation when you've got one arm tied behind your back.

Testimony of Dr. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl

Professor - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

March 6, 2002 Hearing on “Learning from 9/11: Understanding the Collapse of the World Trade Center”


The main impediments to my work were and still are:

1. Not having a copy of the engineering drawings and design and construction documents.

2. Not having copies of the photographs and videotapes that various agencies might have taken during and immediately after the collapse.

http://www.house.gov/science/full02/mar06/astaneh.htm