to the nine eleven commission the airplane that appeared over washington and went on to strike the pentagon was flight american seventy seven the same plane that had disappeared from radar screens over west virginia home ost one hour before but they never provided any evidence of that as we have seen the flight data recorders the serial number that could have identified the airplane was never released all the debunkers have to show for flight seventy seven is a small piece of wreckage carrying an american airlines serial number but this piece could have been placed by anyone on to the grass after the impact in fact an identified men in suits were seen meddling with the debris right after the impact in direct violation of the rules of the crime scene a contractor who is only one hundred yards away from the point of impact stated it was d p s the guys in the black coats they were here right then and there that's what i don't understand where did they come from maybe they knew something i don't know the debunkers claim that the witnesses accounts are more than sufficient to identify the airplanes hundreds of people saw an american airlines jet fly into that building but it's presumable that if anyone wanted a different airplane to look like an american airlines aircraft they would have at least thought of painting the fuselage with the same colors the majority of witnesses recalled seeing a large airliner but there are also witnesses who describe a much smaller executive like airplane just casually looking out the corner out of the window in the corner my eyes saw what looked to be maybe a twenty passenger corporate jet feet which means any airplane with an eighty five foot wingspan could have down those light poles it didn't need to be a seven fifty seven in fact with a one hundred ton airliner hitting a reinforced concrete building like the pentagon one would expect to find a situation similar to this one immediately stood out instead was the absence of large identifiable pieces of debris which are usually found after the crash of an airliner it was the by the transport safety institute according to the official version the plane approached in a low trajectory clipping five light poles from the nearby intersection slightly tilted to the left it hit a trailer parked outside the building with the bottom of the right wing and then impacted the facade at an angle of forty two degrees most of the plane penetrated the facade and proceeded inside the building on a diagonal course causing destruction as it was being destroyed the fuselage pierced through the outer wall  c ring producing this round shaped exit hole ten to twelve feet wide there are however many problems with this version of the events the first one is the actual wingspan of a boeing seven fifty seven most of us remember the facade of the pentagon after it had collapsed but before it collapsed right after the impact this is what the building looked like this series of pictures was taken by a navy photographer shortly after the impact there doesn't seem to be enough damage for a boeing seven fifty seven to have penetrated the building almost in for using the best part from each image a digital expert has created this composite picture which has become the universal tool of reference for anyone involved in the debate the composite picture shows an almost continuous opening at ground level about ninety feet wide the damage extends seven is one hundred twenty four feet but the debunkers forget that the plane came in at a forty two degree angle which makes the projected wingspan the facade one hundred sixty feet wide that's almost twice the ninety foot existing  gash as shown in this animation the left wing should have also destroyed these two windows to the left of the opening but the whole segment to the left of the opening doesn't seem to have been hit by a wing travelling at five hundred mph the windows wooden frames are still in place and the glass seems to have been broken from in suing explosion not from the impact itself to limestone covering the facade has fallen off but the bricks underneath the pier practically untouched by the same projected angle of the right wing should have impact the sod all the way to this column on the second floor in fact there is a diagonal cut on the second floor wall that could have resulted from the wings impact but this puts most of the wing above the second floor slab which means it never penetrated the facade to begin with so where did it go this is the explanation by popular mechanics for what happened to the wings the wings did not fully penetrate the facade in fact the wings had already been partially shut up at the time the plane even hit the building the fuselage mainly made the hole that existed conspiracy theorists want to know why it wasn't the weight that the foregoing spent the plane and actually just the simple result was that the wings cable but where did they go popular mechanics doesn't say a similar problem is posed by the horizontal stabilize which extend some fifty feet in width as they are mounted three feet higher than the wings they should have impacted the facade approximately here and here but there are no visible marks from their impact on the facade nor is any recognizable pi the stabilizers visible on the lawn same story for the tail which raises twenty four feet above the fuselage at the time of impact the tail should have hit as high as the windows on the fourth floor the producer animation shows the tail entering the building in full as if it were cutting through butter but the facade above the entry hole doesn't show any significant damage and the glass from the windows around the hole isn't even broken or the missing tail and stabilizers popular mechanics offers this generic explanation for the plane flying five hundred miles an hour hitting a concrete wall that is an extremely reinforced there's not going to much left of it you're not going to see it sitting on the lawn of the pentagon in one or two or three pieces but here is the problem if part of the wings the stabilizers and the tail disintegrated in a thousand pieces against the poseidon how could the fuselage penetrated almost entirely the fuselage is by far the weakest part of the plane as it basically consists of an of your question how could the fuselage which is the weakest part of the plane penetrate the facade almost entirely while part of the wings the stabilizers and the tail which are relatively stronger were unable to do so and were shattered in a thousand pieces instead even more mysterious is the disappearance of the engines the seven fifty seven that allegedly hit the pentagon was equipped with two rb two eleven engines built by rolls royce almost eight feet in height weighing are not looking for scraps we are looking for two three ton pieces of machinery made with steel and titanium that after an accident should look something like this or like this or like this in fact had the pentagon been hit by a seven fifty seven the two engines would have impacted the facade around these two points just below the wings this means they would have proceeded inside the building on a path somewhat parallel to the fuselage carving a trail of destruction visible outside the exit hole nor are there any other holes in the wall that could have been caused by an engine question can you explain what happened to the core of the two engines which is built with components so strong and resistant to be considered practically indestructible now for the biggest mystery of all the exit hole according to the official version it was the fuselage of the plane that created this hole in the wall the c ring on september fifteenth two thousand and one the pentagon innovation manager stated the plane penetrated through the earring the ring c ring the nose of the plane just barely broke through the inside of the c ring so it was extending into a drive a little bit the a drive is the internal alley separating the is only a cylinder and it gets cut and round by the columns in a thousand pieces how can it retain the circular shape needed to punch this almost perfectly round hole in the wall this is where the explanations by the debunkers become absolutely fascinating the mass of the plane penetrated the building with enormous energy and continued into the building in a state almost more like a liquid than a solid then encounter reinforced concrete columns two feet thick so the aircraft was flying through a forest of columns the plane became almost like an artillery shell or a tank round but actually came out it was a circular ball of fire which is now fire goes with it that's why it has a perfectly round shape by this time there was an avalanche of debris that was moving as a single man as much as in an avalanche of snow whether it was a liquid mass a ball of fire or an avalanche of snow all these hypotheses are flatly contradicted by the pentagon building performance report a document published in two thousand and three by the american society of civil engineers in assessing the condition of the columns in the first floor the report reads columns three g three h three j and five jane were damaged but still standing although in the direct path of the fuselage it is highly unlikely that any significant portion of the fuselage could have retained structural integrity at this point in its travel the aircraft frame most certainly was destroyed before it had travelled the distance at approximately equal the length of the aircraft the length of the aircraft is one hundred fifty five feet which is roughly half the distance between the entry and the exit hole so that no substantial part of the fuselage breached the wall of the c ring was also confirmed by the first eyewitnesses who two degrees we see that the path is repeatedly blocked at some point or another by columns that are damaged but still standing this means that no substantial piece of debris could have traveled from the impact zone to the exit hole in any case question given that according to the pentagon building performance report the aircraft frame most certainly was destroyed before it had traveled a distance that approximately equal the length of the aircraft and that it is highly unlikely that any significant portion of the fuselage could have retained structural integrity from that point on can you explain what caused the almost perfectly round exit hole in the outer wall of the c ring in conclusion we have an opening on the first floor that's a bit more than half the projected wingspan of a seven fifty seven the tip of the left wing and most of the right wing missing without a valid explanation the horizontal stabilizers and the tail also missing without a valid explanation  than an empty cylinder made with aluminum no trace whatsoever of the core of the two engines and an exit hole on the c ring that no one can rationally explain given all these factors we must conclude that the damage observed at the pentagon is not compatible with and must have been created by something other than a boeing seven seven fifty the mystery of what hit the pentagon could have been easily solved if the f b i had released the videos from dozens of surveillance cameras that are placed all around the impact zone yeah there were a lot of cameras around the pentagon if you look at the pentagon you can see that there's cameras on each corner there's some cameras that some of the businesses around the building we know in those cases the tapes were confiscated immediately by the f b i within hours of when a freedom of information act request in all the videos covering the impact zone was filed the f b i agent in charge of the tapes responded the f b i possessed eighty five videotapes that might be potentially responsive to plaintiff's foia request but concluded the agent i determined that only one videotape showed the impact of flight seventy seven into the pentagon on september eleventh two thousand and one this is the tape we have all seen many many times the f b i could have released all the videos anyway just to allow the public to see by themselves what was actually shown in each of them but for some reason they preferred to keep them under wraps lived up  initially the d o d release these five frames taken from the pentagon parking security camera later on in two thousand and six the d o d released the entire sequence from which the five frames had been extracted the time lapse sequence runs at approximately one frame per second and it shows the moments leading up to the impact the large explosion and the billowing fire that ensued unfortunately the video does not show the airplane in transit all we can see in the frame preceding the explosion is what appears to be the tail of an airplane followed by a trail of white smoke but the body of the plane remains covered by this concrete column standing in the foreground the department of defense also released a second video taken by a different camera from the same parking lot the second camera was actually located in the very column that obscured the view of the plane in the first video this aerial shot of the pentagon shows the actual location of the two cameras the second camera faces in the same direction as the first and it offers a clear unobstructed view of the same field of action by using the moment of the explosion we can synchronize the two cameras with absolute frame by frame accuracy by synchronizing the two cameras we notice that the second video begins earlier than the first while the first lasts longer than the second this leaves us with a middle comment section of about one hundred frames which are perfectly synchronized with each other from the moment the police car moves on the action proceeds in an identical manner both in the frames preceding the explosion and in those following the explosion especially in the second part of the videos after the explosion we can verify how each couple of frames exactly the same action by looking at the shape of the billowing smoke this confirms that the two cameras were operating in perfect synchronisation this is only to be expected after all the two cameras were controlled by a centralized recording system called multiplexer or t l r there is however one pair of frames from the two videos that shows a completely different action from one another they happened to be the two frames in which the plane travels across the lawn its frame twenty three in the relative count as the first video showed the tail and the trail of smoke we would expect the second camera placed in this concrete column to show the entire body of the plane in the same position it does not in the corresponding frame camera two shows only the tip of the plane entering frame from the right hand corner but how can the nose of the plane be behind the tail at the same moment in time the synchronization system allows for a maximum fluctuation between the two cameras bore a margin of error of one thirtieth of a second given that the plane is traveling at seven hundred fifty feet per second the maximum possible fluctuation between the two cameras would translate into a difference of a mere twenty five feet in the position of the plane a seven fifty seven is one hundred fifty five feet long even calculating the perspective due to the diagonal path this is far from sufficient to explain the large discrepancy between the two images furthermore after this moment the two videos resume their perfect synchronization which is maintained all the way to the end why these two crucial frames and only these two are so different from one another has puzzled researchers and digital experts alike the same digital expert who had prepared the universal image from the pentagon has also conducted an in depth technical analysis of the two videos released by the department of defense after confirming that the two cameras were synchronized by the same multiplexer system this expert has compiled a table comparing the contents of each pair of frames as one can see frame twenty three is the only one showing a strong inconsistency between the two images the expert has then proceeded to analyze the two frames with the most sophisticated digital tools and has obtained some astonishing results a series of buoy and subtractions reveals that a small part of the image is actually present in both frames it is said to be the nose of the airplane and camera two is also present as part of the smoke trail in camera one it seems in fact as if someone has retouch this area of the frame by means of cut and paste in order to cover the plane while he has kept the end of the smoke trail to make it look like the nose of the plane entering frame question given that the maximum fluctuation between the two cameras would translate in a difference of twenty five feet in the position of the plane can you provide a valid explanation for the large discrepancy between the two corresponding frames absent a valid explanation for this discrepancy we must conclude that at least one of the two frames is the result of intentional manipulation or photoshopping if we now summarize the situation at the pentagon we have the total lack of evidence that the unknown incoming was in fact flight seventy seven a mysterious phantom plane that attracted the attention in the opposite direction the failure from the white house to shoot down the incoming even though it posed a serious and imminent threat a totally illogical approach maneuver from  terrorist point of view and alleged hijacker incapable of performing that maneuver the absence of any significant part of the plane from the wreckage of damage to the building clearly incompatible with a seven fifty seven a doctored tape of the impact and the obvious reluctance by the f b i to release any other tape that could allow the identification of the plane way the whole issue of flight ninety three basically boils down to one question if you just happened to drive by and someone told you that a boeing seven fifty seven has just crashed into this hole and most of the one hundred ton airliner is now ground much of the plane and its contents were found beneath the soft dirt states the f b i has website evidence technicians found the flight data recorder about twelve feet below the surface and the cockpit voice recorder about twenty five feet deep since the two black boxes are located in the tail of the plane one must conclude that also the cockpit most of the fuselage the passenger seats and bodies and their belongings somehow managed to get buried deep underground the only ones who don't seem to have a problem with this explanation are the debunkers we have this idea that when planes crash they crack in half and there is this dramatic burn wreckage that's what happens when planes crash at very low speeds usually on approach or take off from an airport this seven hit the ground at angle of about forty five degrees this fact alone removes much of the exceptionality the developers would like to attach to this crash but even if it were true that the plane fell almost vertically how could the hole have closed itself up even before the first responders arrived this is not mud this is your typical hard country soil when a plane crashes and makes a hole in the ground the hole remains open and quite visible from above this for example is the crat caused by flight pan am one hundred three when it crashed in lockerbie scotland in one nine hundred eighty eight it's true that the seven forty seven the plane that crashed in lockerbie is larger than a seven fifty seven but it's also true that the pan am flight broke up in midair due to an explosion and that only part of the plane caused the crater seen in the photographs let's compare the size of the lockerbie crater several blocks wide with the one in shanksville several feet wide this is this a as a human being next to the lockerbie crater this is the size of a human being next to the shanksville crater these are people looking down into these are people standing by the shanksville crater after the accident compare the size of a car with the lockerbie crater and the size of a small truck with a crater in shanksville this is the largest chunk of the pan am flight that was found near lockerbie it's almost half the front part of the fuselage and includes part of the cockpit this is the largest piece of debris we have ever seen from shanks piece of fuselage a bit wider than two passenger windows in a picture released five years after the event this is an engine from pan am flight one hundred three which plunged to the ground at a location near lockerbie this we are told is an engine from flight ninety three which was supposedly excavated from the hole in shanksville these are images from different crashes showing that the tail of the plane almost always survives it does so because it's normally the last part of the plane impacting the train when most of the kinetic energy has already dissipated to the ground this is the mark on the ground that was supposedly left by the tail of flight ninety three before it vanished into thin air these are the chunks of the wings that are normally found after a plane crash these are the marks that the wings of the plane allegedly left on the ground in shanksville before vanishing with everything else into thin air and this is the center of the hole which is supposed to have swallowed practically the whole fuselage but this is where the official story of the crash becomes truly fascinating according to the f b i after two weeks of excavation in shanksville ninety five percent of the plane had been recovered a boeing seven fifty seven weighs roughly one hundred tons a mid size car weighs about twenty five hundred pounds a ton and a half this means that according to the f b i the equivalent of at least fifty to sixty cars was actually excavated from the ground question can you explain how my most of an airplane weighing one hundred tons could end up buried deep underground in a hole that close to the self up before the first responders arrived but even if it were true that ninety five percent of the plane has been recovered where is it why have we never been shown it when a controversial accident happens all efforts are made to recover as many pieces of the plane as possible these for example are the remains of the flight from lockerbie which have been pieced together in a hangar these are the remains of t w a eight ninety three given the controversy on the absence of debris coupled with the rumors of a possible shoot down it would have been the perfect way to put all the conspiracy theories to rest instead we are told all the recovered parts of the plane have been sequestered by the f b i and no one has ever been able to see them as far as we know of flight ninety three might have never crashed in shanksville to begin with there is another problem for those who support the official version when an airplane crashes to the ground normally a plume of thick black smoke rises to the sky and continues to burn atoll all the fuel is consumed but instead of being faced by something like that this is what the people in shank it's it looked like a mushroom cloud he said but under the cloud there is no plume of black smoke rising to the sky and the mushroom shape is the classic result of a bomb untouched all around some of suggested that this is only the initial explosion and that the plume of black smoke hasn't started to rise yet but this hypothesis is disproven by this video taken by a local amateur shortly after the explosion took place rude as one can see the initial cloud floats in the air but the typical plume of black smoke rising from below is not there i don't know and i think if we fast forward the video we can see that the situation doesn't change much after more than one minute the initial cloud is still there but there is no black smoke whatsoever rising from below question since the plane was carrying eight to ten thousand gallons of fuel at the time of impact can you explain why there is no plume of black smoke rising from the ground after the initial explosion but the toughness problem for the supporters of the official version is to explain how different parts of debris could end up several miles away from the crash site even though the plane is supposed to have hit the ground in one piece william bunch was a reporter for the pittsburgh is that gathered all the information i could here quickly learned that there were a lot of things about the crash of flight ninety three that didn't really add up right away the fact that debris fell on the slate a couple miles away at the same time of the plane was crashing the lake bunch is talking about is in the in the lake which is located a couple of miles southeast of the crash site according to the debunkers there is a valid explanation for the debris found in the lake the first of all it's not true that there was wind on that day as the images show there was only a light breeze gently moving the air all around the very cloud from the explosion as we have seen before practically didn't move for over one minute secondly it wasn't just small pieces of paper that were found in the pittsburgh tribune we read by wednesday morning crash debris began washing ashore at the marina witness john pfleger said there was something that looked like a rib bone a mid pieces of seats small chunks of melted plastic and checks in any case the problem is not limited to indian lake which is two miles away from the crash site debris from the plane was found as far as eight miles away near new baltimore this is the map of the debris field published by the pittsburgh tribune c n n also reported the secondary field confirming that the debris belonged to flight ninety three well there in the last hour so the f b i and the state police here have confirmed that they have cordoned off a second area about six to eight miles away from the crater here where this plane went down this is apparently another debris site which raises a number of questions why would debris from the plane and they identified it specifically as being from this plane why would debris be located six miles away could it have blown that far away seems highly unlikely and as to whether it broke up on the way we don't know that f b i is being very tightlipped about that but again it leads to that possibility it certainly leads to a number of questions since the plane is supposed to have hit the ground in one piece can you explain how it was possible for debris to be found six to eight miles from the crash site on a day when only a light breeze was blowing the extension of the debris field is not the only facts suggesting a shoot down and there are other elements that seem to confirm it stan are watching on t v in the lights flickered in the building about the time we heard the engines roar and we took off out of the building as we were coming up from the office up through the building whenever we were stand in the office in the lights flickered everything and soon as he heard me say dad he immediately stopped me and he said i'm retired from the air force he said the plane was shot down and i said why and he said because whenever the lights like a missile came across our house i mean they were going that fast the mayor of shanksville early still had something interesting to say i know of two people i will not mention names that heard a missile store said they both live very close within a couple of hundred yards this one fellow served in vietnam and he says he's heard them and he heard one that day but who could have possibly shot the plane down as far as we know there are no witnesses who saw fighter jets near flight ninety three at the time of the crash there are however some witnesses who saw a small unmarked white plane which flew over the area just before the crash i just driving along here a beautiful day had my window open and th stereo on and when i got up here almost to the stop sign this small white plane at the time that's what i thought was went over top of me it was so smooth and it just glided right over crank the debunkers maintain that there is no mystery behind the white plane it was a corporate jet they say which here traffic controllers had asked to take a look on the ground after they realized they had lost flight ninety three there was in fact a little white jet that was seen in the area after flight ninety three crashed a number of witnesses saw it was a little to salt felt and corporate jet that was flying to a nearby airport and what happened is once your traffic control knew they had lost flight ninety three they asked the nearest aircraft to go over the area and actually radio now susan mcelwain however i remember seeing the white plane before the crash not after but eleven thirty that night the f b i came want to talk to me they kept asking me how big the plane was i said the plane you know it was small was much bigger than my van that i saw and that it went over top of me and i said we want to make sure that maybe it was ours and not somebody else's and then that's when they did seem to get a little nicer told me that it was white learjet someone was taking pictures i said before the crash what we got down john also saw the mysterious plane since legal arrived on the spot within a minute from the crash the corporate jet sent by the air traffic controllers would not have had time to descend over the area yet while the mystery plane was already getting away from the spot into the blue sky we got there like i said probably within within forty five seconds or minute of impact we were there we were there we were there before any fireman an paramedics or anybody we were on site when we got there there was a plane flying up above and he was smart he flew straight for the sun so you couldn't you could look at it and see exactly what type of plane or if it was a fighter or what it was but you know we caught a glimpse of it and as he was swaying and he was basically travelling in the same direction as the plane if the plane was actually shot down one big question arises what are we to make  heroic gesture by the passengers who chose to force the plane to the ground we are told in order to save the lives of other fellow countrymen in truth this heroic gesture by the passengers has been refuted by the nine eleven commission itself it was the hijackers who wrote the commission and not the passengers who chose to intentionally crash the plane in shanksville the passengers never even made it into the cockpit from the final report we read at nine fifty seven the passenger assault began but for more than five minutes rights the commission the passengers were unable to break into the cockpit after a while as the outside attack continued asked is that it shall we finish it off the hijacker responded no not yet when they all come we finish it off it should be noted that this dialogue was allegedly extracted from the cockpit voice recorder of flight ninety three but the actual recording as we have said before was never played in public at ten o two a hijacker said pull it down pull it down the hijackers remained at the controls but must have judged at the passengers were only seconds from over the airplane headed down the control wheel was turned hard to the right the airplane rolled onto its back and one of the hijackers began shouting allah is the greatest  is the greatest with the sound of the passenger counterattack continuing the aircraft plowed into an empty field in shanksville pennsylvania at five hundred eighty miles per hour about twenty minutes flight time from washington d c as objective concludes the commission was to crash the airliner into symbols of the american republic the capitol or the white house question given that they were only twenty minutes away from washington and for almost six minutes the passengers had been unable to enter the cockpit why didn't the hijackers continue flying towards the capitol and even if they thought they couldn't make it to washington why didn't they try to crash the plane on to a small town nearby why crash the plane in an empty field where they knew they could not kill any more victims than those that were already on the plane with them maybe a less fictional explanation for flight ninety three is the one offered by vernon grose author and former n t s b investigator the role of government ploy in times of how they view the public can the public stand the truth should we need a legend at this point we need a really neat story of reacting against the death it was happening so it's really nice inconvenience to think of the beamer story let's summarize flight ninety three we have no proof whatsoever that the terrorists boarded the plane nor that they were ever in the cockpit and alleged hijacker who could not have flown an airliner in the way that flight ninety three was flown a false concurrent hijacking that called the attention away from the real one no proof whatsoever that flight ninety three crashed in the field near shanksville an extended debris field which flatly disproves the official version of the crash and suggests that the plane broke up in midair instead an unexplained small white jet leaving the area right after the impact and the fact that the passengers who called from their cell phones could not have been on that plane to begin with which strongly suggests their revolts was a scripted fictional event intended to f prefabricated legend and may have represented the moment where large corporate interests of global reach and cynical economic greed found the perfect place for a secret encounter common wisdom has it that the september eleventh attacks destroyed two of the best jewels america has ever had but exactly jewels the twin towers were not what they sat on some of the most valuable real estate in the world after thirty years the twin towers had become obsolete with each of the floors built as an open space of almost one acre in size the rising cost of energy had made it extremely expensive to keep the buildings warm in winter and cool in summer general maintenance was also very expensive compared to buildings from more recent years in the one nine hundred ninety nine book on the twin towers divided we stand author eric darton wrote when the world trade center was bombed in february one thousand nine hundred three it was already passing its prime as office space overtaken by a generation of more recent cybernetically smart buildings with higher ceilings and greater built in electrical capacity to maintain the trade center as class a office space commanding top rents the port authority would have had to spend eight hundred million dollars rebuilding its electrical electronic communications and cooling systems furthermore after the one thousand nine hundred three bombing the tenancy had dropped dramatically and it had been very hard to bring it back to normal levels but the biggest problem with the twin towers was the large amount of the specialists they  contained built in a time when the use of us best as was still allowed in civil construction at least four hundred tons of this extremely dangerous material had been used to fireproof the steel structure of the buildings and to insulate hundreds of miles of pipe things for water heating and air conditioning a specialist was also present in the ceiling panels the elevator shafts and the vinyl tiles from office floors from a property condition assessment of the twin towers dated december two thousand we read according to port authority records a total of seven million square feet of vinyl this best has floor tiles were installed in the world trade center by the time especially this was banned from civil construction the twin towers were nearing their completion initially the especially this was encapsulated wherever possible to prevent the particles from being inhaled but in the one nine hundred ninety s the regulations grew tighter and every time a simple renovation was needed the complete removal and replacement of the a specialist was also required at the same time because of the health it posed the cost of a specialist removal and abatement had been skyrocketing safety procedures required the areas to be treated to be vacated in advance hermetically sealed and kept under negative pressure at all times to prevent particles from escaping outside only specialized workers could access the area where an airtight suits and respirators a full decontamination process was required every time they left the area in the mid ninety's the port authority put out different bids for the removal and replacement obvious best to us in a case by case scenario for example this is the one nine hundred ninety five contract for the installation of two low voltage substations in towers one and two one section in the contract listed the replacement of a at lord's forty one forty two seventy five and seventy six in tower one and floors seventy five and seventy six in tower two total cost for the express is for moving and replacement eight hundred sixty eight thousand dollars tower two fortieth floor it soon became clear that the twin towers were quickly turning from a prestigious asset into a serious liability from the december two thousand condition assessment we read from one thousand nine hundred six to nine hundred ninety nine a total of thirty one contracts were bi and a total of fifty eight point two million dollars was spent in abatement projects by then three and a half million square feet of finalist best as floor tile was removed only half of the initial seven million square feet installed at the estimated cost of five to six dollars per square foot that accounted for an additional twenty million dollars in cost for the port authority and that was for the floor tiles only there were also hundreds of thousands of square feet of spray on fireproofing to be removed throughout both buildings and then there were the elevators this is the list of elevator shafts with a special this containing material as of december two thousand this is tower one and this is tower two reportedly by the year two thousand the port authority was looking at in a special abatement bill of as much as one billion dollars the same money it would have cost to build a brand new tower back in the ninety's the port authority had sued the insurance companies trying to get them to cover the cost of the especially its removal but in may two thousand and one four months before the terrorist attack the port authority of new york and new jersey lost their ten year old court battle at that point the port authority was between a rock and a hard place the twin towers could no longer be maintained without incurring the cost of a specialist removal yet they could not be demolished because of large amounts of the specifies they contained the only remaining option was to dismantle remove the two poison filled giants one piece at a time but the cost of such an operation would have been so astronomical that no one has ever tried to put a number on it luckily for all the still mate was broken when a real estate tycoon named larry silverstein who already own building seven offered to purchase a ninety nine year lease for the twin towers seventy six years old and look at him though he was a always always so silverstein seemed in a big hurry to close the deal even though he had been hospitalized for a car accident during the building operations he asked his doctors to take him off the morphine so the deal could be finalized so i told the office at kill the morphine silverstein celebrated the acquisition of the twin towers with a public ceremony silverstein signed the lease of the world trade center just six weeks before nine eleven he then took out an insurance policy covering the twin towers for three point two billion dollars in case work even though he had already scheduled a business meeting in the north tower he found out that his wife had made an appointment for him at the dermatologist the morning of september eleventh so risky was scheduled to have breakfast at the restaurant at the top of the north tower he this is how on the evening of september eleventh larry silverstein found himself in control of some twelve million square feet of new office space to be built on some of the most valuable real estate in the world and since the terrorist attacks had been two separate events contended silverstein the insurance companies would have to pay him seven billion dollars to rebuild what he has always been calling my three towers i have seven to get those three towers eventually a settlement was reached for four point five billion dollars which was still one third more than the amount initially insured by silverstein and since on september eleventh due to the terrorist attacks building seven had also been destroyed silverstein received another eight hundred million to rebuild the skyscraper that had originally cost four hundred million it's a much more beautiful building it's a glass with allows the light to come in to the space but the views of four sides after about all of the space looks magnificent in the meantime all the especially this from the twin towers has been hailed by the citizens of downtown manhattan and especially by the first responders and volunteers who worked at ground zero who are now being decimated by mesothelioma another parliamentary disease