B25 Crash Anomaly - Where's the Tower's sheets of flame?

[outsider]

Stumbled upon this link on a ICH Comments site; a particular thing that caught my attention was that there was A SHEET OF FLAME THAT WENT DOWN THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING, as well as the fireball; and pictures of that building and others also show the blackened path where burning fuel has cascaded down the ouside of the building.
Yet we get NONE AT ALL CASCADING DOWN THE TWINS!!
I may have missed it, but no one seems to have noticed this anomaly.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0311.shtml

B-25 Empire State Building Collision


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I heard a big plane hit the Empire State Building in World War II. Why didn't the skyscraper collapse like the World Trade Center did?
- question from Tina Weaver
It is surprising so little information about this event is available on the Internet, but over 50 years prior to the terror attacks of September 11, New York City's skyline bore the brunt of another aerial disaster. The accident occurred on 28 July 1945, a seemingly peaceful Saturday morning in America's largest city. The war in Europe had already ended, and Japan would also surrender to the Allies in just a few weeks.


North face of the Empire State Building looking south
One of the many who contributed to the war effort was Lt. Col. Bill Smith, a decorated pilot who had flown a B-17 Flying Fortress for the US Army Air Force. Now returned from Europe, Smith was put in charge of a routine flight to ferry a B-25D Mitchell bomber from Bedford, Massachusetts, to Newark, New Jersey. The bomber, operating under the call sign Army 0577, was nicknamed "Old John Feather Merchant" and had been converted into a VIP transport. Smith was to pick up his commanding officer at Newark before continuing on to Sioux Falls Army Air Base in South Dakota. The B-25 was a medium twin-engine bomber, far smaller than the B-17 Smith flew over Europe, but both designs saw widespread use throughout the War. Accompanying Smith on his journey was SSgt. Christopher Domitrovich and an aviation machinist's mate from the Navy named Albert Perna. Perna had hitched a ride on the flight to return to Brooklyn and console his parents following the death of their other son who lost his life in the Pacific.

The B-25 departed on its fateful mission just before 9 AM headed south for New Jersey. Less than an hour into the flight, however, Smith received warnings from the New York Municipal Airport in Queens (now called LaGuardia Airport) that thick fog had enveloped the city. The field's control tower ominously reported, "We're unable to see the top of the Empire State. Suggest you land here." Though Smith acknowledged the message, he apparently ignored it and requested clearance to continue to Newark.

The plane was only minutes from LaGuardia but lost in a dense fog that limited visibility. Flight rules of the time required aircraft to maintain an altitude of at least 2,000 ft (610 m) over the city, but Smith dropped to less than half that height hoping to regain sight of the ground. That he surely did, but the pilot had misjudged his location and soon found his plane bounding through the concrete canyons of the city's skyscrapers. The bomber soon attracted attention from alarmed citizens as its roaring engines echoed off the facades of buildings below. Those working in the upper stories of office buildings raced to windows to watch in amazement as a plane flew beneath them, turning and banking rapidly as its wingtips barely missed some structures. One observer was Army Air Force Lt. Frank Covey who spotted the doomed B-25 from his room in the Biltmore Hotel. Covey watched in disbelief as the plane barely missed the New York Central Office Building and was no higher than its 22nd floor.
.....read on...and see the pictures...