An interview with engineer Henry Guthard who worked with Minoru Yamasaki, the lead architect of the World Trade Center towers.
"To help design and construct one of the world's modern wonders was one of their lives' defining events..And to watch the towers pierced, to watch them crumble one after the other, was agonizing.'To hit the building; to disappear inside the building; to have pieces come out the other side; it was amazing the building stood,' said Mr. Guthard, as he recalled watching the image of the second plane smashing into the second tower. 'To defend against 5,000 gallons of ignited fuel in a building of 1,350 feet is not possible.'"
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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