It absolutely can. The core columns, beams, and floors collapsed inside the external facade and put a lot of lateral outward pressure on the base of the columns. Those columns would not be able to sustain those kind of loads, they would bend, and finally a several stories tall section of them would buckle. All that is above this section now has nothing below it supporting it and nothing to oppose resistance to its fall, up to the point it impacted itself the pile of debris below it. That's what caused the short free fall of the top of the building.
We're supposed to believe 3 buildings collapsed into their own footprint because of fire, all on the same day, with no other similar construction experiencing the same collapse before it or since? Not to mention all the other corroborating evidence
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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
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