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A NEW theory has emerged claiming to give the REAL reason the Twin Towers fell after the 9/11 attacks.
Just before the two World Trade Centre skyscrapers crashed to the ground on September 11, 2001, a series of huge blasts were heard in the buildings.
And a leading scientist says they could have been the sound of molten aircraft metal reacting with water from sprinkler systems in the towers.
The sudden collapse of the towers after they were hit by two passenger jets has previously been blamed on over-heated steel beams.
But Norwegian expert Dr Christian Simensen believes the violent chemical reaction between molten aluminium from the aircraft and water is what actually ripped out the buildings' internal structure.
Explosions
Dr Simensen, from the SINTEF institute based in Trondheim, Norway, said: "Both scientific experiments and 250 reported disasters suffered by the aluminium industry have shown that the combination of molten aluminium and water releases enormous explosions."
Almost 3,000 people died after al-Qaeda terrorists flew two fuel-laden planes into the World Trade Centre in Manhattan.
The impacts triggered massive explosions and fires, but the subsequent collapse of each tower came as a shock to those watching the disaster unfold.
Blasts heard just before the buildings fell have led to conspiracy theories that explosives were set off inside the towers.
But Dr Simensen believes after crashing into the skyscrapers the two jets would have been trapped within an insulating layer of debris.
As a result, the aircraft hulls rather than the buildings absorbed most of the heat from the burning aviation fuel.
It is then claimed molten aluminium from the jets, flowing down through staircases and gaps in the floors, reacted with water from emergency sprinklers on the lower levels.
Dr Simensen, who presented his theory at an international materials conference in San Diego, California, said: "I regard it as extremely likely that it was these explosions that made the skyscrapers collapse by tearing out part of the internal structure, and that this caused the uppermost floors of the buildings to fall and crush the lower parts.
"In other words, I believe that these were the explosions that were heard by people in the vicinity and that have since given life to the conspiracy theories that explosives had been placed in the skyscrapers."
