I always love people claim thermite was used but don’t understand thermite, termite burns Down and only Down, thermite is to hot to control and it only burns Down, you can not cut a vertical beam with thermite because it burns Down not across, it is to hot to channel, it is a gravity driven, self fueled, unstoppable beast. I can’t stress Down hard enough. Down, Down, Down.
A shaped charge could cut a vertical bean cleanly, but not thermite, seriously folks, learn your facts before you start talking about thermite
And for all of you that can use Google, yes there are ways to shape the direction of thermite, but not good ones, nothing to the scale that would be needed, as shown in this
http://www.itep.ws/pdf/FOI_Rapport.pdf experiment to use thermite to detonate military ordinance. And it still dribbles out of the holder and can not make an angled cut such as that picture shows; thermite in 9/11 is Bunk.
Debunking the thermite myth:
http://www.geocities.com/debunking911/thermite.htm
Thermite in general:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
Thermite in specific:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chemica...mite_synthesis
FYI, thermite is DANGEROUS, please don’t experiment with it your self.