Posted on 09/11/2016 10:38:00 AM PDT by drewh
From the earliest days after the 9/11 attacks, the American establishment have showed an overwhelming reluctance to dwell on those who jumped or fell from the Twin Towers.
Unofficial estimates put the number of jumpers at around 200, but it is impossible to say for certain because their bodies were indistinguishable from others after the collapse of the Towers.
As part of its research into where the fire was at its most intense, NIST analysed camera footage and still photographs, and counted 104 jumpers, often recording the floor and exact window from which they left.
All but three leapt from the first building to be hit — the North Tower. The second plane struck the South Tower 16 minutes later but it collapsed first, giving occupants less time to react.
The first jumper is recorded plunging from the North Tower’s 149th window of the 93rd floor on the north face of the building at 8.51am, just over four minutes after it was hit by the first hijacked Boeing 757 between the 93rd and 99th floors.
Sometimes fallers were separated by an interval of just a second. At one point nine people fell in six seconds from five adjacent windows; at another, 13 people fell in two minutes. Twenty minutes after the building was struck, two people fell simultaneously from the same window on the 95th floor.
At least four jumpers tried to climb to other windows for safety then lost their grip. One person climbed from the 93rd floor to the 92nd, clinging to the window’s edge before falling just one second after someone else plumetted from the same window — number 215 on the east face of the tower.
The last jumper fell just as the North Tower collapsed 102 minutes after the building had been hit.
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Thank you for re-posting it.
Got a link for that?
Her father, James E. Bowman, died in 2011 in Chicago. So, he doesn't live. Anywhere. Her mother, Barbara Taylor Bowman, still lives in Chicago, as far as I know (again, if you've got a link...).
>> Islam murdering people since 610 AD
Islam is a war plan.
Path to 9-11 illustrates what you described, but the commies at Disney pulled the film.
I’ll bet there are a lot of chance close call stories like that, my sister got caught in a restaurant in Times Square and they would not let her out that day. scary stuff
Dr.: I share with you the most accurate and sensible post I have seen on FR. Its author is a retired military man: Blue Lancer.
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