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July 24

Did Flight 11's impact do any damage whatsoever to the South Tower on 9/11?

This is something I've always wondered given how close the WTC towers were to each other. When Mohamed Atta flew the first plane into the North Tower, did the resulting explosion do any minor damage to the South Tower as well? If so, what kind of damage would it have been? I've never gotten a conclusive answer on this topic and I haven't seen the question so much as alluded to on any websites I've visited. 109.78.173.137 (talk) 20:04, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The arrangement of the twin towers, marked WTC 1 (North tower) and WTC 2 (South tower), can be seen on this site plan. --Lambiam 22:12, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at. Does this mean that WTC2 wouldn't have sustained any damage from the first plane hitting WTC1? I see that the towers are off-set from each other in the graph but I would be surprised if that explosion and fireball did absolutely nothing to the neighboring building, especially considering the fact that debris from AA11 were launched from the tower by the blast and later found in nearby streets.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.78.173.137 (talk • contribs) 22:42, July 24, 2022 (UTC)

When the plane hit the North Tower, there was no explosion, merely a fireball emerging seconds later from the north side where the plane entered, away from the South Tower. --Lambiam 02:44, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The 9/11 Memorial Timeline includes a witness recording from a woman watching the North Tower attack from a window in the South Tower. Alansplodge (talk) 11:31, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's possible there wasn't enough time between the two plane strikes to measure any impact you're asking about. However, there was another building in the complex which collapsed. However, that was after the two big ones had collapsed. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:59, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The momentum vector of the emerging debris, which included parts of the aircraft such as some of its landing gear, pointed due south, so the major debris entirely missed the South Tower. --Lambiam 09:21, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]