Building 7 Fact 3: How The Gash Got There

Follow along and explore the hard evidence of debris, debris patterns, and video of collapse. This is the type evidence which will be presented to a grand jury if there were to be a new investigation. Those who claim controlled demolition brought down WTC7 have to overcome this evidence with structural evidence of CD in order to open a new investigation. My research finds the Structural remains of Building 7 show no sign of controlled demolition. ____________________________________________________________________________________________

If the gash is fact, what caused it should be evident in the many WTC1 collapse videos. Indeed, there is one distinct piece of falling wall which originates from about the 60th floor and hurtles out of the smoke, directly on line with WTC7 in the vicinity of column 20. For readers who believe the distance perimeter wall fell from the Tower is because they were exploded outward, this piece began it’s fall after the collapse line had passed. Click on photos for detail:

Note when the piece first appears it is standing vertical, and it is a third of the way between WTC1 and 7! The upright angle tells us what was occurring in the dust below, which will be shown later in this chapter. Now watch the video. Watch at regular speed a few times, and you will see the piece strike between WFC and the Woolworth spire. Note the speed it is traveling at impact. Start at 1:34 and:

Another west view, more from the north, shows how deep the falling arc fell into WTC7:

North views confirm this piece lines up in the vicinity of columns 19 & 20:

Note collapse of the Tower has progressed well past the point of origin of this piece of perimeter wall. Start at 0:17:

All videos of collapse from north, east and west, show this piece of perimeter wall emerge from the smoke and dust at the same point during collapse. If anyone wishes to see more of the video references, just leave a comment. There can be no doubt; this is the piece of falling perimeter wall which gouged WTC7. Some have argued it impossible for the perimeter wall to travel the 329 feet between WTC1 and 7. It is well within possibility. A 32 story tall piece of perimeter wall falling over would indeed strike WTC7:

But I don’t think that is exactly what occurred. The anomaly of the piece emerging vertical, well outside the footprint of WTC1 puzzled me, until I remembered another puzzling anomaly; the lower north wall of WTC1 leaning against WTC6, yet not enough debris can be seen between the north wall and the core to push the north wall into WTC6:

What explains the lean of the north wall and part of it bent away from center? Granted, WTC1 collapse was largely internal, which splayed the perimeter walls outward, but with the top of the North Tower falling south, resulting in relatively little debris in the north part of the footprint, splaying of the lower, stronger, north perimeter wall did not make sense, until I was studying the source of WTC7 gash. Now it makes sense, and it fits with what we know. Because the top fell south, most of the debris fell in the southern half of the footprint, peeling the south wall like a banana, leaving a tall spire (60 or more floors) of the north wall swaying, and leaning slightly to the north, much like the core column spires were swaying before it collapsed, seen here. The swaying spire then tipped to the north, pulling the lower wall further north until it hit WTC6. The upper perimeter wall was then flung along it’s arc, something like this:

Falling in this manner is the only explanation for the piece emerging vertical. Note the gouges in WTC6 on the north side of the building. They corroborate the falling spires, and show a likely path of the spire which created the gash in WTC7. The large central hole in WTC6 was created by a large slab of perimeter wall from higher up than the 65th floor:

Watch WTC6 get pummeled starting at 9:55 (a dramatic view of WTC7 getting hit as well): The north side gouges were created later, by the lower 65 floor perimeter wall collapse:

Fact: The south face of WTC7 was slashed top to near bottom.

Fact: Barry Jennings most likely witnessed the gash being made, not an explosion (this fact will be developed further).

A grand jury will be shown all this corroborating evidence and more. The gash, Jennings’ location near the falling perimeter wall, and Jennings’ description of damage are corroborated and indisputable fact. The next questions answered for a grand jury are “How deep did the gash penetrate WTC7? All the way to the core?”, “Was there any other damage?”, and “Why does the gash matter?” Be sure to follow this blog for those answers, to be published soon.

Building 7 Fact 1: Barry Jennings Did NOT Witness A Bomb In Building 7 Before The Towers Fell.

Follow along and explore the hard evidence of debris, debris patterns, and video of collapse. This is the type evidence which will be presented to a grand jury if there were to be a new investigation. Those who claim controlled demolition brought down WTC7 have to overcome this evidence with structural evidence of CD in order to open a new investigation. My research finds the Structural remains of Building 7 show no sign of controlled demolition.

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The Barry Jennings story is fact 1 because most controlled demolition proponents use his account of events on 9/11/01 as evidence of explosions in the building. In trying to corroborate his story, I found his time line did not add up, and his description of events fit more in line with a plummeting slab of WTC1 perimeter wall than any explosion. He was in a dark, enclosed stairwell. His interview with ABC Channel 7 News on 9/11/01:

The explosion he described would have been in this part of the building:

Here’s a photo of the south face of WTC7 after the South Tower collapsed (click photo for enlargement):

No sign of any explosion.

The explosion would have occurred in the area just above the promenade. Jennings was in the west stairwell on the 6th floor, and he stated the explosion was below him; that it destroyed the stairwell below him, dropping him so that he had to climb back up to the 8th floor.  This photo was taken from the following video. It has shots in and around Building 7 after collapse of WTC1. It has shots of the area under the Promenade, and no damage there either. It also includes an interview with Officer Bennette in the lobby, and there is no indication of any structural damage; only broken windows and debris from the collapse of the South Tower:

Jennings was in the west stairwell. Richard Rotanz, Detailed fire commander of FDNY to OEM, inspected WTC7 at approximately 1 pm on 9/11/01. I spoke with him and asked specifically which stairwell he used. He stated he entered the building from the east, ascended to the 15th floor using the east stairwell, and did not go into the west part of the building. He knew enough from that short inspection to predict building failure within hours. Barry Jennings then, would have been in the west stairwell; he stated it was destroyed from the 6th floor down. The west stairwell is close to the area where perimeter wall from the collapse of WTC1 would have landed. As fast as the falling steel was traveling, and with Jennings being in an enclosed stairwell, it surely sounded like an explosion when it hit bottom. It is doubtful he would have heard anything until.

But this is not the only evidence of a mistaken time line.

-He noted the building was getting very hot during the same time frame he crawled back up to the 8th floor, prior to when he claims each tower collapsed. The building would not have gotten “very hot” until after collapse of at least the South Tower, whose collapse is believed to have ignited fires, but I can find no evidence of fire prior to collapse of the North Tower. The alarms were going off due to the smoke and dust in the building from South tower collapse, apparently. Regardless, the building getting hot prior to Jennings’ timeline for each Tower collapse shows him to be mistaken. The 8:51 a.m. temperature reading was 68°F at Central Park, 72°F at La Guardia, and 73°F at both JFK and Newark Airports.

-He stated the explosion was beneath him and blew him back. An explosion beneath him should have blown him upwards. A 50 ton slab of steel falling near him would have blown him back. The gentleman he was with, Michael Hess, described the moment as a sudden wind and much more dust and ash then what was present before.

-He exhibited no explosive type injuries. He should have fragment wounds at least.

-Vesey Street and the Promenade directly above it, which the lobby of WTC7 overlooks, prior to either Tower collapsing, was crawling with first responders and evacuees. No one reported an explosion in 7!

There are other question marks in the interviews. Too much for here, but I am happy to discuss in greater detail in the comments.

Reach your own conclusions. I believe the Jennings account points more to the horrific damage sustained by Building 7, rather than any explosive having been detonated. His description of damage matches perfectly with multi-ton slabs of steel perimeter wall panels slamming through the building.

The second interview is no longer available in full. Parts of it can be found on various videos. Here at the 4:56 mark Jennings mentions the heat as he climbed back up to the 8th floor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fRfctTxaIZY#t=296

Edit 2/3/14: I found a video with most of the 2nd interview which starts at 0:25:

The next question is, did a part of WTC1 falling perimeter wall penetrate WTC7 deep enough to have caused the damage Jennings described? The next two facts, “The Gash” and “How It Got There”, will address that question. The answer is yes. But don’t take my word for it. Let the facts speak.

Thank you for reading. Future posts will be more pictures and fewer words.

Joe Hill