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Care to state why you think it didn't topple?
I doubt that they were "massive." Either way, the building was most likely designed to transfer the weight evenly throughout the entire building.
Exactly. However they didn't accurately account for the load capacity of the remaining columns, so they failed. The same could be said about WTC 7. Once the columns below the east penthouse failed, the remaining columns could not handle the weight that was transfered to them. They were able to handle it for ~8 seconds and then failed. The remaining roof structures collapsing into the building faster than the facade would indicate that the failure was from the inside columns first.
that the collapse was initiated somewhere in columns 79,80 and/or 81 is pretty clear by now.