[Jordo]

I thought the same thing, so imagine my surprise the next day when I learned that Tower 2 fell after 40 minutes but Tower 1, the first tower hit, stayed up for about an hour and a half total.

A timeline I saw had the South Tower staying up for almost exactly 1 hour after it was hit, and the North Tower up for about 1 hour and 45 minutes after it was hit, or about an hour and a half after the second plane hit the South Tower.

I've seen other accounts that disagreed with these times.

[hellinahandcart]

A timeline I saw had the South Tower staying up for almost exactly 1 hour after it was hit, and the North Tower up for about 1 hour and 45 minutes after it was hit, or about an hour and a half after the second plane hit the South Tower.

You're correct; I just rechecked the Time Magazine chart about this. Tower 1, hit at 8:45, collapsed at 10:29. Tower 2, hit at 9:06, down at 10:00.

If you'd asked me that afternoon, I would have sworn on a stack of Bibles that both towers were down in way less than an hour (but then, I did have that memory glitch I mentioned).