In a message dated 5/8/03 10:28:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

I would argue that this catastrophe was not (as an engineering issue, and certainly at the time they were designed) foreseeable

Have you seen the ad published in The New York Times in May 1967 by a group of downtown businessmen opposed to the state-sponsored construction of several million sf of office space to be rented on the private market. It shows the trade center with a jet .... well, I don't have to draw you a picture. It was in response to this criticism that Leslie Robertson said that the Trade Center had been designed to take the impact of a fully loaded jet. Sounds like others foresaw it for him -- and he made up a response. Christopher