Analysis of 9/11 Victim Recovery

The concrete floors, the furniture, the computers, and the file cabinets

weren't the only things missing after the collapses.

The Twin Towers were also filled with people.

Inexplicably though, almost half of the victims' bodies seem to

have

disappeared into thin air.

When a building collapses, the victims tend to remain trapped between

the

pancaking floors. They may be crushed and mangled, but in most

cases they remain in one piece.

In fact, on the morning of September 11, local hospitals prepared to

receive hundreds of victims they expected to be extracted from the

rubble. Practically no one

arrived. According to the chief medical examiner,

2,749 victims died in the Twin Towers, but

fewer than 300 whole bodies were recovered.

Nearly 20,000 pieces of bodies were found in the ruins, more than

6,000 small enough to fit in five-inch test tubes.

200 different pieces were matched to a single person.

1,630 victims were eventually identified, 800

of which by DNA alone. This means that for 800

victims, there were no body parts large enough to

be

recognizable. The remaining

1,119 victims were never identified.

This means that for more than 40% of the victims, not even a

fragment large enough to recover DNA was found.

For Joyce and Russell Mercer, there's no trace of the son they lost on

9/11, firefighter Scott Kepitko.

You can't go to a cemetery. Can't put flowers down.

Personally, I lost a cousin in the building

and never found his re- remains.

He was on the 100th floor of Tower One, and they never found his, uh, anything or

any remnants.

Patricia Riley recovered her sister Lorraine's handbag, but nothing

of her body.

Lorraine has a tombstone at the cemetery, but she isn't there.

1,100 victims completely unaccounted for.

In other words, no pieces large enough to gain any DNA

from, vaporized. Can fire and a

gravitational collapse account for this massive

pulverization of people?

This map by the New York Fire Department shows the locations around the

towers where human remains were found.

Yellow circles are body parts from civilians.

Red triangles are from firefighters.

The very distance at which some of the body parts

were found remains

inexplicable with a simple gravitational collapse.

In fact, fragments of human remains continued to

emerge from Ground Zero

for many years after the attacks.

More human remains were found at the World Trade Center site

on Wednesday.

Crews made the discovery at 11 Water Street.

Another four possible remains were found at the Hull Road excavation

site.

The ME is also investigating other remains that were found about two weeks ago on

the roof of 90 West Street.

Construction workers found nine pieces of bone and tissue on a

20th-floor scaffolding on this building on West Street.

Workers have found 65 potential human remains at the World Trade Center

site over the last couple of days. The medical examiner's office says they

were

recovered from the Liberty Street section of the site.

Then in 2006 came the biggest surprise.

Demolition workers found 74 new bone fragments on

the roof of the Deutsche Bank building over the weekend.

That's the most found since the end of major recovery operations at the

site.

The number of fragments found on the roof of the Deutsche Bank kept increasing by

the day.

Crews continue to find human bone fragments on the roof of the Deutsche Bank

building next to the Trade Center site.

The medical examiner's office says 142 fragments were found, bringing to

598 the total number of fragments found in the building.

Eventually, more than 700 bone fragments

were recovered from the Deutsche Bank

building.

USA Today wrote, "The bone fragments are tiny, some the size

of a pinky nail." Some debunkers have suggested that the bone

fragments could have reached the roof of the Deutsche Bank after the impact of

American 11, as some debris exited the opposite side of

the

tower in a southerly direction. But the view of the Deutsche Bank was

blocked by the South Tower at the time of impact, and there was no direct

line between the exit hole in the North Tower and the roof of the Deutsche Bank.

Furthermore, as seen in this map, the body parts found on the roof belong

not only to civilians, but also to firefighters, who were clearly

not present in the North Tower at the time of impact.

Question: Can you explain how a simple gravitational

collapse,

where the bodies remain trapped between pancaking floors, could have produced more

than 20,000 body parts out of 2,700 victims,

while more than 1,100 bodies left no fragments large enough to

extract a DNA sample?

Can you explain how a simple gravitational collapse could have produced

the bone fragments and body parts from civilians and

firefighters that were recovered from the roof of the

Deutsche Bank building?