Reply #47: clarification

[Bouvet_Island]

"You can't rule it out. It does depend on how tight the shafts are, as you suggested, but I did find one example (after the ESB was hit by a bomber) where a falling elevator blew the hatch doors off. You'd have to find out lots of facts like where all the elevators were, what the clearance was, etc., to rule it out."

I meant it seems it is a bad fit with the observed facts, though I might be thinking in terms of the wrong type of elevator doors. In Norway the common type is a rather thick steel quality sliding door patent. They maybe obviously had a less solid design there.

One thing though is to destroy some hinges but all the witness observations you cite say the doors were "blown out", and so all put together it also seems strange to me if this should be the cause of the booms people heard etc. I thought this wasn't the lowest floor of those elevators, blowing out one or a few doors is OK but It seems strange for them to be blowing out all the doors of the lower floors.

Many of the witnesses use the word blown out, and there is all the other reported damage. It seems to indicate more pressure or force than falling elevators.

The chemicals and so would perhaps be a fire hazard anywhere in the towers? If ...