Beachnut, 9 years and you don't even know whether the core or perimeter failed first.
This is some of the first accurate data of early WTC1 movement you have ever seen.
Reactor drone, post 1145: "You may be misinterpreting the NIST description. In that Gif the south wall has failed and load redistribution is progressing rapidly along the east and west faces and through the core."
How do you know? None of the data or images tell us that is what happened. The gif shows the antenna sagging while the NW corner is pulled in and the data confirms that is what is happening. If you look at the west face during this time you will see that the SW corner has not begun to move down yet. (The little image in the middle of the gif shows you the SW corner fire. Is it moving down at this time? No.)
Please look at the gif again and notice that the antenna is sagging before the SW corner fire begins to move downwards.
From the NIST:
1-6D, p 312, Table 5-2: Rotation of at least 8 degrees to the south occurred before the building section began to fall vertically under gravity.
1-6draft p 290: The entire section of the building above the impact zone began tilting as a rigid block (all four faces; not only the bowed and buckled south face) to the south (at least about 8º) as column instability progressed rapidly from the south wall along the adjacent east and west walls
1-6draft, p 317: A tilt to the south of at least 8 degrees occurred before dust clouds obscured the view and the building section began to fall downwards.
(Same quotes in the final version but it is easier to copy and paste from the draft)
These descriptions by the NIST are incorrect. There is no "rigid block'. The earliest movements are of pure deformation as we just learned yesterday in the thread on femr's data analysis.