According to a New York Times article published five months after the attacks, quote, an unknown number of steel columns has been sent off to mills as far away as Asia without ever having been examined or. This made it nearly impossible for engineers to answer the monumental questions of exactly why and how the buildings designed to sustain a jet impact completely collapsed. To the extent that any analysis of the debris was done at all, it was done by volunteers at a scrapyard in Jersey City, New Jersey, according to the New York Times. (06:09–06:22)
CLAIM
Asserts that the removal of debris hindered engineers' ability to analyze the collapse.
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