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plane flying into a skyscraper  

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9/12/2018 4:52 am
plane flying into a skyscraper

After Sept. 11, 2001 many uninformed people said no one could imagine a plane colliding with a building and that causing a structure to fail. Not true.

In the Eighties I worked in a downtown LA law office and got the task of being a junior fire marshal. Which came with a binder of fire risks. The most serious danger was a large plane striking the building by accident in a fog. They did not anticipate a deliberate terrorist attack. But the danger was understood that jet fuel could cause a severe fire leading to the weakening of the steel beams and the collapse of the entire building in a pancake failure.

Of course in WWII kamikaze flew planes into ships and sank a number of ships by human guided planes. We now have<b> cruise </font></b>missiles and drones do that.

So the failure of imagination was only partial, not complete. Sadly almost 3,000 died due to a lapse in understanding and combatting the national security threat. Could it happen again? The threat remains. I hope we are better able to understand the problem and prevent another disaster in the future. We need to be vigilant and imagine what could occur.

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