The 9/11 Aftermath in Pictures: The WTC and Its Surrounds

thuppahi

3 years ago

Captain Kumar Kirinde, SLAF Retd, whose facored title runs as “THE DESTROYED TOWERS OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTRE OF NEW YORK: THE AFTEMATH OF 9/11 REMEMBERED IN PICTURES” .…. Sources: http://www.quora.com (posts by Ann Longmore-Etheridge), ……………………………………………………………………………….. https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/world-trade-center-slurry- wall.htm and Google Images

Constructing the World Trade Center (1970)

Pic: https://www.ba-bamail.com/baba-recommends/history-in-pictures-25- amazing-images-of-the-past/ ….

Earth and Space Shuttle in view from the ISS …. (Pics: https://www.msn.com/en-in/lifestyle/travel/9-11-as-seen-from-space-and other-out-of-this-world-photographs…)

A smoke plume rises from Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001. …………. Photograph taken by orbiting Space Shuttle astronauts and those aboard the International Space Station)

Destruction of the WTC – View from the windows the Twin Towers after they were hit ……. (taken from inside the South Tower after the first plane hit)

Destruction of the WTC – What was found after the dust settled ….

Destuction of the WTC – The position of the Slurry Wall

When terrorists crashed two airliners full of jet fuel into the World Trade Center (WTC) on Sept. 11, 2001, the resulting inferno, coupled with structural damage, caused what were then New York City’s tallest skyscrapers to collapse and disintegrate into a mound of smoking rubble [source: NIST]. But amazingly, after the gray dust settled and engineers were able to probe the wreckage, they discovered that a critical part of the WTC complex had somehow survived. The slurry wall — a 3-foot-thick (91 centimeters), below-ground, concrete structure surrounding the World Trade Center, designed to keep its basement levels from being flooded by the Hudson River — remained in place