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How many jumped from the WTC towers?

Posted on 10/31/2001 3:16:12 PM PST by ErnBatavia

The media has seemed to suppress this (how many poor souls that felt compelled to jump from the burning towers) for whatever reason.

I, for one, would like to be armed with some sort of number who leaped to their certain deaths. I have a feeling, due to the "Vietnamization" taking place now, that this tidbit of data might come in handy.......right about the time some clown gets my '5 across the lips'.

Anybody have an idea as to the numbers involved here? Thanks in advance.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 911victims; jumpers; wtc
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To: exnavy
6,000 Americans paid the ultimate price of freedom on 9/11.

Where did the other 3000 die?
301 posted on 11/23/2007 4:06:28 PM PST by aruanan
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To: celts8347

I’ve wondered if a helicopter could have gotten up to the roof with all of the fire below. Would that mess with air currents over the building? There must be some reason. Otherwise, you would think landing a helicopter on the roof would be the first thing they would try.


302 posted on 11/23/2007 4:12:03 PM PST by mysterio
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To: celts8347
No one has written in 6 years on this.

Just because you haven't read it doesn't mean it hasn't been written.

It’s an atrocity that 20 lives, 5 lives or even 1 live couldn’t be saved from a helicopter going to the North Tower. The South Tower may not have been accessible but there was a corner of the North Tower that was.

Hot air rises. A lot of really, really hot air creates what are called convection currents. a rescue from a target that small at that altitude would be extremely difficult on a perfect day -- throw in convection, and it's nearly impossible.

303 posted on 11/23/2007 4:21:08 PM PST by ReignOfError
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To: ErnBatavia

Before or after the last stock market crash??


304 posted on 11/23/2007 4:28:58 PM PST by tracer
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To: vannrox
I specifically asked this question to a research associate at work. It took her most of the day, but the next day she told me that OVER 175 people jumped

This figure sounds closer to me than a dozen. I remember seeing a documentary that was filmed by two brothers,Jules and Gedeon Naudet. They had just happened to be filming at one of the firestations close to the WTC and they were taken to the WTC by the firestation crew. They filmed a lot of what was going on that day.

In one scene they were diverting the evacuees from going out one exit because it was too dangerous because of the falling bodies. You could hear all sorts of popping sounds in the background and the fireman told the cameraman that each one of those pops was a body hitting the ground. I think I heard well over a dozen pops just during that scene. It was horrendous to know that you were hearing lives ending while you were watching that film.

I think the documentary was just called "9/11" If you ever have a chance to watch it, take the time because it is an eyewitness view with actual footage from that day and it is a very powerful tribute to the work and sacrifice that was made that day by the firemen.

305 posted on 11/23/2007 4:30:38 PM PST by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: tracer; celts8347
The "phenomenon" has happened again!

A today FReep registrant has dug up a six year old thread and posted some reply to it. Weird, indeed.

celts8347

306 posted on 11/23/2007 4:33:52 PM PST by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: celts8347

Ron Paul wannabe


307 posted on 11/23/2007 4:34:36 PM PST by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: MHGinTN

she isnt holding a baby, if you look close she has her arm around a man standing in front of her. thats his white shirt your seeing. hope this helps give some peace. no baby!!!


308 posted on 06/07/2010 11:11:12 AM PDT by staci v.
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To: WIladyconservative

i heard that he was killed when he bend down to give last rites to the firefighter that was killed by the jumper. falling debre hit and killed him.


309 posted on 06/07/2010 11:11:13 AM PDT by staci v.
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To: ErnBatavia

“A today FReep registrant has dug up a six year old thread and posted some reply to it. Weird, indeed.”

deja vu?


310 posted on 06/07/2010 11:16:19 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: reagandemocrat; staci v.

Weird....I’m maybe guessing that people are maybe Googleizing something and come across an FR archive, then sign up to post to it.


311 posted on 06/07/2010 11:19:24 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Saundra Duffy

More than a dozen. When you listen to the tapes of the Firemen in the command post in the WTC, you can hear a body hitting the covered driveway about every 10-20 seconds. It was sickening.


312 posted on 06/07/2010 11:21:52 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: ErnBatavia; staci v.

Maybe our new FRiend can enlighten us.


313 posted on 06/07/2010 11:28:22 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: Republic of Texas

I saw an article once stating that jumpers were about 10% of the total fatalities.


314 posted on 06/07/2010 11:29:52 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: WIladyconservative

Yes, The Fire Chaplin was killed by a jumper as he was blessing the dead. A true hero.


315 posted on 09/10/2011 11:18:41 AM PDT by halfright ("Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading". --Thomas Je)
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To: ErnBatavia
200 or so, according to this:

FR Post: The 9/11 victims America wants to forget: The 200 jumpers who flung themselves from the Twin Towers who have been 'airbrushed from history' (DailyMail.co.uk, by Tom Leonard)

316 posted on 09/10/2011 11:34:33 AM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: SamAdams76

And never forgive.


317 posted on 09/10/2012 9:59:26 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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