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i have a question about that - were people actually jumping before the second plane hit?

Posted by Andie (aka Andie) Sep 23 '11, 11:43

at that point they could still get up and down, couldn't they? (at least up?)

(thinking about this a second longer, i suppose there would have been some people trapped by fire that couldn't leave their offices, but i really didn't think anyone was jumping that soon.)

i didn't think people started jumping till there was nowhere else to go.

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I wish I could find the article I read a few weeks ago, but this explains it too. -- (link) - mara Sep 23, 11:51 4 1
- oh dear god. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 12:00
- wow. that's tough to read. thanks though. -- nm - Andie Sep 23, 11:58 2
  - also hard to read "Most came from the north tower's 101st to 105th floors, where the Cantor Fitzgerald bond firm had offices, and the 106th and 107th - Andie Sep 23, 12:00 1
    - One of my brother's friends from HS was in WOW that morning. it's too horrible to think about. he was a really good guy. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 12:03
The reports I read say yes. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 11:50
There were fires that separated the upper floors from the ones beneath. - David, Archer fan Sep 23, 11:46 12
- i guess, i just think my first instinct would be if i couldn't go down, i'd go up before i *jumped out a window* -- nm - Andie Sep 23, 11:46 11
  - word -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 23, 12:03
  - it's easy to monday morning quarterback this sort of thing....nm - x Sep 23, 12:02 4
    - oh, god, i don't mean to question anyone's actions. i was more questioning the timing of what the guy in the original article was saying. -- nm - Andie Sep 23, 12:04 1
      - I think it varied greatly depending on the location. The floors right above were in a fireball right away. - loosilu Sep 23, 12:07
    - That's the thing. For a lot of these people, it was a two minute series of events. -- nm - David, Archer fan Sep 23, 12:03 1
      - exactly. and clearly it had to be horrific in there. it wasn't one or two people. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 12:04
  - If the smoke was bad enough, you might not be able to find "up." Plus, the window is where light and fresh air were. -- nm - mara Sep 23, 11:55 1
    - some of the people photographed falling were actually on fire. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 11:56
  - I will say that while my stubborness was through the roof, my judgment was quite impaired during the fire. - David, Archer fan Sep 23, 11:50 1
    - I suspect some of those floors didn't have floors any more. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 11:52
  - from the telephoto pictures we saw, it looks like people were driven to the windows by smoke and flames and literally had nowhere to go. -- nm - loosilu Sep 23, 11:50
Remember, Plane 2 hit Building 2. So anyone in Building 1 was already in their situation.... - Will Hunting Sep 23, 11:44 2
- no, i know. i just didn't remember it that way. i thought things weren't that dire, yet. - Andie Sep 23, 11:49 1
  - I read accounts that people started jumping/falling just minutes after the first plane hit. probably people in the floors immediately adjacent to the - loosilu Sep 23, 11:51
yeah, also, you don't get dressed when that is playing out across the street in case you have to leave? -- nm - Andie Sep 23, 11:44

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