I overheard a couple of people talking on the bus. One was saying she heard the occupancy of floors high up in the Sears Tower was way down since 9-11 because most people on the low levels got out fine.
Is this true? (about the occupancy rate and people getting out alive)
Also if someone could pilot a large jet (like those in 9-11) how low could they strike. What floors were hit in the WTC. To make it clearer, lets say the jets hit the WTC on the 60th floor could they have flown down and hit the WTC on the 30th floor?
I can’t say whether the stories about nobody wanting to rent the higher floors in the Sears Tower are true, but it is true that no one above the floors where each plane struck each of the twin towers survived (other than about a half dozen people that cut there way a wall in tower two).
As far as could it be hit lower, yes & no. Yes its possible, but not easy. Large jets are not what you’d call ‘nimble’. Given their limited experience I’d say the scumbag who piloted the second jet into tower 2 got about as low as he could.
The North Tower was hit between the 94[sup]th[/sup] and 99[sup]th[/sup] floors and the South Tower was hit between the 78[sup]th[/sup] and 84[sup]th[/sup] floors.
I interviewed with the law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, who just so happens to have the 80-86th (I think 86th) floors in the Sears Tower. I asked, during the interview, whether or not they had any intention of leaving in the near future. The partner told me they did not.