Talk:Skyline Towers collapse

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Virginia Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Virginia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Virginia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.VirginiaWikipedia:WikiProject VirginiaTemplate:WikiProject VirginiaVirginia articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. Disaster management Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Disaster management, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Disaster management on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Disaster managementWikipedia:WikiProject Disaster managementTemplate:WikiProject Disaster managementDisaster management articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. Occupational Safety and Health Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles related to occupational safety and health on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Occupational Safety and HealthWikipedia:WikiProject Occupational Safety and HealthTemplate:WikiProject Occupational Safety and HealthOccupational Safety and Health articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

• Collapse of the World Trade Center
• Progressive Collapse
• Skyline Tower (merely a "See also" this article)

This 1973 collapse was a pancake collapse of concrete floors much like the "progressive collapse" of the World Trade Center towers. It ran from the 24th floor of the planned 26-story tower down into a subbasement. IMHO this is a great article guys, thanks, and the "Progressive Collapse" authors may have to reconsider their claim that the WTC is the only example of the total collapse of a steel-frame tower. Glad I was in Australia when Route 7 was closed for weeks of dump-truck traffic working to clear Virginia's own Ground Zero.
Jerry-va (talk) 23:43, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, the article doesn't make any precise description the building's structure. How could we assume it was a steel framed structure similar to the WTCs? The word "steel" appears only 1 time on all the article "The cascading concrete and steel killed 14 people and injured 34 others" Please complete properly that stuff in order to not feed speculations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grizouk (talk • contribs) 13:52, 8 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]