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Posted 2015-03-02, 01:49 PM in reply to Demosthenes's post starting "They were also the first buildings to..."
Not too many buildings have been hit by a plane. And none on the scale of a 757/767. A b25 bomber crashed into the Empire state building in 1945, but was relatively mild in comparison.

But, there have been a few fires:


In '88 a fire at the Interstate Bank Building in L.A. burned for 4 hours. It is a 62 story building, but did not collapse.


'91 the 38-story One Meridian Plaza in Philly burned for 18 hours and did not collapse.


in 2004 a 56-story office tower burned for 17 hours and spread accross 26 floors. Two floors collapsed, but the underlying floors did not.


In 2005 a 32-story Windsor building in Spain caught fire and burned for over 48 hours. The entire building was in flames. Several top floors collapsed onto lower ones, yet the building remained standing.




2010 an apartment block in Shanghai caught fire and burned for four hours. Did not collapse.






For reference, Germany's Goethe University Tower (32 story)














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