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2nd currently known footage of a 9/11 jumper hit the pavement. the fact that there's only TWO known footage of jumpers hitting the ground on the surface... There's no way these are the only captured videos... Obviously there's much more but so well hidden and erased.
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- 8 in The North Tower, The Jumpers Were Right in Assessing Their Fate
- 7 in The South Tower, Some May Have Had An Escape Route… But Didn’T Know It
- 6 Their Plight Was Too Terrible For Television
- 5 What They Were Jumping from Was Pure Hell
- 4 They Had A Long, Horrifying Way Down
- 3 One Fell on A Firefighter
- 2 A Jumper Was The Subject of A Highly Controversial Photo
- 1 The Jumpers Were Given Unfair Stigmas… Even by Families of Victims
Of the 2,606 people who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center, more than half – at least 1,356– were in the North Tower (Tower One) at or above the point of impact of American Airlines Flight 11, which slammed into the building at 8:46am. The South Tower (Tower Two) would be struck at 9:03am. There are three reasons that the death toll was ...
In the South Tower (Tower Two), about 620 victims were at or above the point of impact of United Airlines Flight 175, which struck about 17 minutes after the North Tower crash. This precious time allowed many in the South Tower to evacuate, explaining why only half as many perished as in Tower One. It also partially explains why there were far fewe...
As the horror unfolded, television screens around the world filled with terrifying visuals. The North Tower’s upper floors engulfed in smoke, flames lapping from its gaping gash. The second plane’s impact sending a giant fireballinto the clear blue sky, instantly eliminating any hope that the first crash was an accident. Finally, the towers pancaki...
Several scientific studies explaining why the towers ultimately collapsed, including those exploring the thermodynamics of 9/11,have been written. In layman’s terms, it was pure hell. The impacts of the planes sent an aviation fuel fireball through half a dozen levels of each tower, igniting desks, chairs, shelving, carpeting, work-space partitions...
The World Trade Center Towers were each approximately 1,300 feet tall – about one-quarter of a mile high. Even at speeds approaching 150mph, the fall took approximately 10 seconds. Those 10 seconds were completely and utterly hopeless. They could see the crowds looking up and the ruined bodies of preceding jumpers. Some held hands and jumped in pai...
Of the 343 New York City Fire Department officials killed on 9/11, the very first documented fatality was 37-year-old Danny Suhr. He wasn’t killed by smoke inhalation or building collapse, but rather when a woman falling from the South Tower (Tower Two) fell directly on him. FDNY Captain Paul Conlon witnessed the entire incredible, heartbreakingspe...
The most famous image of a 9/11 jumper was taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Richard Drew. Simply called “The Falling Man”,the photo depicts an adult male, head over feet with a light dress shirt fluttering in descent, against the backdrop of the unmistakable steel-slatted World Trade Center facade. Amid the fire and wreckage off-camera,...
Any reasonable assessment of 9/11 concludes those who jumped from the Twin Towers were, along with everyone else who died, homicide victims. Unfortunately, the notion that jumpers were somehow “less than” those who perished from plane crashes, smoke, fire, or building collapse persisted in the tragedy’s aftermath. For some, it was a matter of relig...
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September 11, 2001. ( 2001-09-11) Medium. Photograph. Subject. A 9/11 casualty. Location. New York City, New York, U.S. The Falling Man is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City.
74 Shares. By Lauren Weigle. Updated Sep 11, 2017 at 8:04am. Getty. September 11th is a time to think back to 2001 and remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Sixteen...
12 de sept. de 2021 · I spent 21 days covering the 9/11 story before photographing the postponed Trinidad-Hopkins fight on September 29 and finally returning to Puerto Rico. Today, I still have flashbacks – images of ...
23 de sept. de 2021 · The Pentagon's Emergency Response. On March 31st, 2017, the FBI released this photo alongside dozens of other never-before-seen images from September 11th, 2001. Covering both the interior and exterior of the Pentagon, the photos capture the urgency of the response and the pure shock felt by everyone present.
3 de sept. de 2011 · 9/11: 'Jumpers' from the World Trade Center still provoke impassioned debate. The images of those who fell from the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001, still shock us today 10 years...
