Revealed: The Falling Man of 9/11

Mirror ^ | March 15, 2006 | David Edwards

[Ann Archy]

Sorry, but we could have won this war a long time ago IF the DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE BEEN ON OUR SIDE!! They WANT us to LOSE!

[Ciexyz]

Didn't they catch Richard Reid after that? (the crash of the Dominican Republic airliner)

Ah, so you're suggesting that a shoe bomber could have brought down that airline? Interesting.

[Ciexyz]

The body craves life, the body and mind will make an unconscious decision to embrace life, even if only for a few more seconds. Because of the God-given life force within them, these victims were compelled to move away from the heat, smoke and flames towards fresh air...even if it meant losing their balance on a ledge or falling (or jumping) out a window.

May they rest in peace.

[Ciexyz]

The government lies.

Yup. On 9-11, I was watching a Pittsburgh PA news station (I think it was WPXI) and they had a reporter up in Somerset (about 90 minutes from Pittsburgh), where the fourth plane crashed. The reporter related that a local woman was hanging out her wash when she heard a big bang and she looked up and saw an airliner begin to tilt to the side, then disappear over the horizon.

That was early in the afternoon when I heard that, maybe 1 PM. In the ensuing hours, the story disappeared from the news reports. The official story came out that there was NO bomb aboard that flight and no big bang. Go figure!

[Ciexyz]

...some seemed to just step out into space, not knowing in the thick smoke that they were walking through a shattered window.

I've never read that before, thanks for posting.

[freepertoo]

Bump for Jonathan.

[fanfan]

Ah, so you're suggesting that a shoe bomber could have brought down that airline?

Thats right.

[Ciexyz]

What I remember most about that Dominican Airlines crash is that my cousin was scheduled to fly to the Dominican Republic the following week on vacation. She wasn't worried a bit. She figured that since one tragedy already happened, she was safe.

[freema]

Jonathan Briley, you have a whole new set of brothers and sisters who care for your family. There is a piece of the buildings at the entrance to the East Coast base that teaches new Marines to perform their jobs, brought by the NYFD, in brotherhood. Semper Fi

[Gondring]

In the middle ages the Pope ruled that jumping from a burning tower wasn't suicide.

The tower doesn't even have to be burning. Lots of twists and turns and exceptions have had to be added since they made suicide a sin hundreds of years after Christ. That was the same meeting where they decided that priests who had taken a vow of vegetarianism had to eat meat broth or be excommunicated, right?

[Gondring]

There was a commuter parking lot about a couple of blocks from me. For some reason, I was really saddened by the cars that weren't claimed after a week or so, since their owners never came back.

Reminds me of the evacuated Chernobyl dwellings.

[freepertoo]

I'm so sorry you saw what you saw. So sorry it happened at all. I'm heartsick.

This story is getting a big yawn here at work...and we're in D.C.! We saw the smoke of the Pentagon from our windows!

They're forgetting...Dear Lord, they're FORGETTING!!!!

[Gondring]

What I remember most about that Dominican Airlines crash is that my cousin was scheduled to fly to the Dominican Republic the following week on vacation. She wasn't worried a bit. She figured that since one tragedy already happened, she was safe.

That's why I always smuggle a bomb on board...I mean, what are the chances that TWO bombs would be on the same plane? ;-)

For the Homeland Security/TSA folks with no sense of humor, it's a joke!

[Arkinsaw]

They're forgetting...Dear Lord, they're FORGETTING!!!!

Doomed to repeat.

[lawgirl]

Wow- I hope someday people will be able to talk about it-- it needs never to be forgottten.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Heartbreaking story. May Jonathan Briley rest in peace, and may all the victims of such a horrible crime rest in eternal peace as well.

[Ptarmigan]

It is a reflex to avoid danger, like fire or smoke.

[SouthParkRepublican]

"Hmm, jump or be burned to death. Not exactly a tough choice. Burning is very painful. Jumping doesn't hurt a bit."

Jumping does not hurt but there is quite a bit of time on your hands to think about how the landing will.

[humblegunner]

I'm betting the man would want to be avenged.

[georgia2006]

Esquire got it wrong, they identified the wrong person