[split] 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

[Tiberius]

How does the damage of the black box, which is nearly indestructible mean there was a struggle? It was such a fantastic struggle that is damaged the flight data recorder? I would lean towards a crash into the ground as more likely a cause of said damage.

Oh come on. Stop being facetious. You know full well that he meant that cockpit recorder had recorded the sounds the crew and passengers made as they tried to breach the cockpit door in their last bid effort to retake the plane. This is confirmed by the calls made by the passengers themselves to loved ones and the authorities.

How much resistance to gravity do undamaged floors present? In a pancake collapse theory, what is a reasonable time frame of said collapse whereas there is a congruent amount of gravitational resistance from the floors below involved in said collapse? I assume that it is much higher than 9 or 14 seconds, more like 45ish.

No, it took the 14 or so seconds that the building collapsed in. The weight of the floors above the impact has to be taken into account, and this is why the second building to be hit was the first one to fall. The second building was hit much lower that the first, so there was more weight above the damage, causing more strain as the inner structure deteriorated.