"Following the impact, floor loads originally supported by the exterior columns in compression were successfully transferred to other load paths," wrote examiners for the official Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) report. "Most of the load supported by the failed columns is believed to have transferred to adjacent perimeter columns through Vierendeel behavior of the exterior wall frame."
There were fewer people at that time and even though they had their religion and myths there were still a lot of unanswered question that people like philosophers would try to find answered for.
