What would they have done with the Twin Towers if they hadn't collapsed completely?

Do you really think a helicopter can hover so still that it would allow you time to catch a rope, figure out where the end is, work out how to tie it through your belt loops (are your loops even big enough to fit a rope through?) hold your breath for a few seconds, and then jump out a window?

What happens next? Do you climb up the rope like Indiana Jones? Do they drop you onto another building's roof like in The Matrix?

Seriously, life is not like action films. There is no way anything even close to what you are suggesting would have worked.

Helicopters move around when they are hovering still. One tiny movement from the helicopter and the rope you are delicately trying to tie around your waist would jerk out of your hands at best and at worst, pull you out the window when you're not ready. And that's even if they could somehow get it to you in through a window (they couldn't)

Oh my. What in your opinion is the best type of knot to use? Trouser loops are well known for their helicopter strength design. Friction of the rope is not important as it would be nivia coated.

Asides from that, sure its only a building on fire and collapsing. Not a bother!

Christ but this has become bizarre.

Absolutely no point in me explaining.

It wasn't possible on 9/11 as the access doors to the rooftops were locked, there was no one on the rooftops to rescue; unlike the 1993 bombing where people were rescued from the roof.

Additionally, the heat and billowing smoke from the jet fuel as reported by the police helicopter made it impossible. Both towers were engulfed. They saw a spot on the north tower roof that was clear but there was nobody there to attempt a daring rescue. Also, they didn't know if more planes were incoming.

The helicopter police said all they could do was bear witness to the 100s of people waving at them from the windows. Very sad.

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It is seriously the kind of escape plan a six year old would have drawn up with crayons.

I just keep thinking of John McClane bouncing off the side of Nakatomi plaza on the end of a fire hose.

Not a hope of a chopper landing on the helipads.

the pilots had zero visibility to approach and to land safely on the helipad…

ingesting the smoke into the engines and into the lungs of the crew would have been fatal.. for crews and those who temporarily survived.

National Geographic made a six part documentary series for the 20 the anniversary.

Probably the most in depth documentary on the topic from the human perspective, one of the people interviewed was one of the people who was in the helicopter circling the towers, they said they were so close they could count the pebbles on the roof of one of towers but nobody had gotten access to the roof, one corner was free of smoke but there was nobody there.

He described how he could see the anguish on the faces of the people hanging out of the windows but there was no way they could get to them.

As for the buildings had they stood, there had been a quote of a several billion given to the new owner in the summer of 2001 for removal of the asbestos that was used in one and a half of the towers. The only possible outcome would have been demolition. The buildings had the attacks not happened would likely have been demolished /deconstructed and rebuilt by now anyway.

Best - deffo the big inflatable slide ........

Least Worst - Also, deffo the big inflatable slide .......

Jesus wept!!!

My guess no.

the amount of smoke would have made it impossible….

helicopters couldn’t land in zero visibility on a structure with vasts amount of equipment, ie. Satellite dishes, aircon units, maintenance huts…..never locate the helipad

helicopters couldn’t land and operate with smoke the being ingested into the engines

crew would have been overcome by smoke / fumes..