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>But I have never seen
anyone address, forensically, this question:  how would a grid-framed
structure - like the Empire State Building - have performed under the same
circumstances?<

I thought I saw a lot of discussion on this soon after the event. Many
opinions to the effect that the ESB would have held up better (and citing
the time an airplane actually did hit it), and some disagreeing, maybe on
the mistaken and easily disproved assumption that new construction methods
must produce stronger buildings than old methods did. Maybe you mean that
these opinions were not fully worked out forensic analyses? 
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