WTC 6, the Customs Building, was severely damaged. From street level, it looked 'blown out'. Viewed from above, it was blown out.
During the first collapse Bill Biggart took a picture that includes a rather damaged-looking Customs Building, just over the red sign "122" on the very left. Is this the stock paint job the Port Authority applied to WTC6? If not, this discoloration could only be caused by either a bomb in the building or falling plane parts, and the global aspect of the discoloration tends to rule out the latter. The heavy parts of"Flight 11", hitting the North Tower directly from the north, penetrated it. Presumably, thelight parts bounced off. Could they really have destroyed Building 6?
Contrary to the thesis advanced by photoanalyst Jack Davis, most 9-11 skeptics now affirm that the
large dust cloud emanating from the WTC site about the time of the South Tower's collapse
originated from the collapse of that structure rather than from a separate explosion in WTC 6:
However, some 9/11 skeptics maintain that a pyroclastic cloud seen emanating from the complex at 9:03 AM, minutes before the first collapse, could have been the demolition inside WTC 6 as likely as it could have been a detonation to soften up the lower core of the South Tower.
From the air, a gaping hole can be seen extending down 8 stories into the center of the building. Official reports (link pending) claim that the shape of the crater roughly matches the shape of the outer wall of the North Tower that fell on it.
The Marriott Hotel, WTC 3, struck by falling debris from the collapse of WTC 2 as devastatingly
as WTC 6, shows a visually very different characteristic of damage. We know the damage to the
Marriott is caused by falling debris because we have
Bill Biggart's
direct photographic evidence of it:
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(The full sized foto may be accessed here.)
Also view WTC060.jpg thru WTC066.jpg. They all show a building that contrasts starkly with WTC 3.
Clearly, raining debris from the North Tower when it collapsed caused damage, such as the damaged roof on the facade facing West Street. Note that this column & spandrel segment didn't even penetrate through the top floor, however. Is the quantity and shape of WTC1 north wall shards really consistent with the size and shape of the crater in WTC6? We don't have much to go on:
but we can't say from this photo that the material inside the crater looks materially more significant than the other column and spandrel parts of the roof that did NOT collapse. And it certainly is a wonder that the very CENTER of the building was so significantly destroyed in a symmetrical crater.
The video Loose Change contains panning footage of the northwest corner of WTC1 with a curious discoloration up from street level, shot BEFORE either WTC1 or 2 collapsed. If this is distorted cladding, falling plane debris could be an explanation, but the damage is so extensive we suspect an explosion in WTC6.