Reply #89: Because Hayden was "in on it"?

[jberryhill]

Is that the right answer?

It may indeed be mentioned in the NIST final report, but there's something about your excitement on this point that I really don't get.

But again, Hayden's casual statement in the course of a magazine interview is ambiguous as to whether anything done with the transit caused him to conclude it was coming down. He says they used a transit, but he also says it was visibly bulging.

Hayden isn't dead, you know. Have you tried contacting him about it, instead of badgering on about it here?

Answering the question of "why did people think it was going to fall down" is not all that important to answering the question of "why did it fall down".

As you know, clear photographs of the South Side are far and few between, due to smoke from the fires. But I do believe that NIST, and its many outside consultants and experts, have been collecting as many usuable photographs, films, measurement, and witness statement about the condition of that building in the course of the investigation. Why do you think that these materials will be excluded from consideration?