Here’s an [example](https://youtu.be/NnUeipeDCZ8) of what I mean.
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Where the smoke rises isn’t necessarily the location where charges went off. Without a closer view of what went wrong with the detonation/timing here it’s hard to say what happened or why the stack fell over sideways. It’s very possible that it did fall in the direction of the charges that went off.
Incomplete demolition can fail to collapse the building and overload the remaining supports elsewhere, and this leads to unexpected failures in unexpected directions when those stressed components finally fail. That failure may be in a few seconds, or they may hold up for a long time.
The smokestack in your video was presumably supposed to pancake straight down.
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