The_Yoda on 13 October 2014
I'm no physicist or engineer either but we have no street level shots, and 7 had a trapezoidal footprint, most of what I have seen in the way of demolition footage is of square or rectangular footprinted buildings being dropped. I would think different shapes would behave differently.
As I thought the building also sat atop the "power station"
"The building was situated above a Consolidated Edison power substation, which imposed unique structural design constraints." So if the diesel was in a basement or subbasement footage taken even at street level (especially blocks away) likely wouldn't indicate what was happening below ground.
