According to NIST the only route or passage for the jet fuel was down elevator shaft 6, 7, and 50.
An elevator engineer in the south tower reports:
“We heard the explosion and within a matter of seconds after that impact, I heard – and as well as everybody else heard – this noise, this increasing sound of wind. And it was getting louder and louder. It was like a bomb, not quite the sound of a bomb coming down from a bomber. It was a sound of wind increasing, a whistling sound, increasing in sound
What we heard was 6 and 7 car free-falling from the 107th floor and they impacted the basement at B-2 Level. And that’s the explosion that filled the lobby within a matter of two or three seconds, engulfed the lobby in dust, smoke.
And apparently from what I talked to with other mechanics, they saw the doors, the hatch doors blow off in the lobby level of 6 and 7 car.”
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and we all know the story of Arturo Griffith and Marlene Cruz in car 50.
In the following testimony we will hear accounts of people being burnt within or beside “local” elevator shafts. All these testimonies can be found at Gravy’s paper: william rodriguez escape artist
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1 According to the accounts I have heard, Debbie was in the lobby waiting for an elevator when AA Flight 11 hit on 93. The jet fuel from the plane poured down the elevator shafts. Owing to the way the elevators are laid out,
I don't understand how the fuel got into the elevator that she was waiting for. There are / (were) "Sky Lobbies" on 44 and on 78. So to go above those floors, you took an express elevator to the appropriate sky lobby and then transferred to a local elevator. The elevator machinery was located on the floors above the sky lobbies; only a very few shafts continued all the way up . Anyway, apparently she was in the lobby, the elevator shaftway doors opened and a fireball hit her with full force. She survived and was taken to a hospital with 90% burns. After lingering for about 50 days she died
2 Lobby & 3rd floor: Firefighter Peter Blaich
As we got to the third floor of the B stairway, we forced open an elevator door which was burnt on all three sides. The only thing that was remaining was the hoistway door. And inside the elevator were about I didn’t recognize them initially, but a guy from 1 Truck said oh my God,
those are people. They were pretty incinerated. And I remember the overpowering smell of kerosene. That’s when Lieutenant Foti said oh, that’s the jet fuel. I remember it smelled like if you’re camping and you drop a kerosene lamp.
3 Firefighter John Moribito: I noticed that some of the elevators had been blown out of their shafts. They came down and crashed out of the shaft. They were buckled, and I had noticed that
there were people still in the elevators. I believe that they were at that point deceased.
4 Firefighter Timothy Brown: We finally set up -- prior to this I believe it was the west side of the core of the building there were elevators. Someone had come to me and said that there were people trapped in one of those elevators. So I ran around the corner, and the hoist way doors were open, but the elevator car was only showing about two feet at the top of the door. You could see all the legs of the people that were in the elevator. I would guess
there were about eight people in the elevator. The elevator pit was on fire with the jet fuel.
There are other examples available but these shall suffice.
The question is: if 6, 7, and 50 are the only pathways available for the jet fuel fireballs then how do we explain these four cases above? In the twin towers there were THREE zones in the buildings the first zone ran from one to 42, the second zone started from 44 to 76, and the third zone started from 78 to 110. the four examples above occured in the first zone. That means the jet fuel had to travel down the elevator shaft from the third zone and SOMEHOW leak into the local elevators where these people were found dead or became burnt.
In USATODAY they state: “Elevator shafts worked like chimneys, funneling unbearable smoke to floors above the crashes. The shafts also channeled burning jet fuel throughout both towers.
Fire moved not only up and down but also side to side, from shaft to shaft, unleashing explosions in elevator lobbies and in restrooms next to the shafts.”
Unfortunately, USA TODAY never explain this "shaft to shaft" process.
Lefty sergent attempts one such explanation he states
The walls between elevator shafts were just sheet rock, easily blown out by a slow-propogating explosion such as fuel would create. This accounts for the leakage into shafts not communicating with the impact area.
Unfortunately lefty sergeant does not explain in detail exactly what “slow-propogating explosion” entails. Wouldn’t the jet fuel be entirely consummed from such an explosion? it just seems a tad inconceivable that sufficient jet fuel could remain unconsummed after such an event to incinerate people, create fireballs in various local elevators.
I cant recall NIST mentioning much less explaining this shaft to shaft transfer of jet fuel. Moreover let us not forget that the jet fuel is descending in a downwards projection as NIST lead investigator Shyam Sunder says that “the burning jet fuel simply followed the path of least resistance.” Can descending jet fuel in one elevator shaft survive an explosion unconsummed and then swing a right turn into another elevator shaft?
So the question is for whoever cares is...explain this “shaft to shaft” transfer that skipped two zones, an explosion, and defied the natural trajectory of gravity to jump into another shaft with a sufficient amount of combustible jet fuel so as to cause another raging fireball.
