Surprisingly, Robertson claimed that the WTC Towers were designed to survive plane crashes at speeds of
180 mph.
[28] He also repeated this claim in an interview with Steven Jones in October 2006.
[29] However, these statements are contradicted by Skilling, who indicated that “
a previous analysis, carried out early in 1964, calculated that the towers would handle the impact of a 707 traveling at 600 mph without collapsing.”
[30] Robertson is also somewhat contradicted by his own statement in 1984-5 that there was “
little likelihood of a collapse no matter how the building was attacked.”
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