Other American networks were broadcasting similar reports at this time and the reports from FEMA and NIST both make it clear the building was on fire during the course of the day. now we're told there is a fire there and that the building may collapse as well." ![]() is on fire and has either collapsed or is collapsing. ![]() It's important to remember that context when looking more closely at what happened between about 4.10pm (EDT) and 5.20pm when Building 7 finally collapsed.ĬNN's chronology of events published at the time confirms they reported the building on fire and a clip from a CNN bulletin, widely available on the web, hears from a reporter at about 4.15pm EDT, 9.15pm in the UK, who says: " We're getting information that one of the other buildings. It's in the nature of rolling news that events unfold in front of you and confusion turns to clarity. But this was also a very confusing picture - remember we had started the day with reports that a light aircraft had struck the first tower, and at one stage there was talk of ten hijacked jets in the air. Other buildings were known to be damaged. ![]() I've also read through some of the reports published after 9/11 to help put together the sequence of events.īack to 11 September itself. But we do know quite a bit more than we did on Tuesday, as a result of checking the BBC archives and what other media were doing at the time. So how did the BBC report that Building 7 at the World Trade Centre had collapsed around half an hour before it did so? My earlier posting on the subject has attracted a lot of interest so we've been doing more investigating within the BBC to put together the sequence of events.įive and a half years have passed so it's quite difficult to answer every outstanding question.
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