Tragic Reasons Why People Fell From The World Trade Center On 9/11

PerUSA Today, the first people who leapt from the Twin Towers on 9/11 were initially mistaken as debris by onlookers. Jumping was observed continuously from the time the towers were struck to the time they collapsed. The majority of people who jumped came from the 100th, 105th, 106th, and 107th floors of the north tower.

Per USA Today, the first people who leapt from the Twin Towers on 9/11 were initially mistaken as debris by onlookers. Jumping was observed continuously from the time the towers were struck to the time they collapsed. The majority of people who jumped came from the 100th, 105th, 106th, and 107th floors of the north tower. The lower of those levels housed offices for the bond firm Cantor Fitzgerald, and the upper stories housed the Windows on the World restaurant. Those who fell did so at around 150 miles per hour, a sure death sentence upon impact.

Having been struck at a higher level than the south tower, the smoke and heat of the north tower were more intensely concentrated on a smaller number of floors for a longer duration, 102 minutes. The smoke and heat would have circulated through stairwells and elevator shafts, at such intensity that some of the people who fell may have been blown out, or forced by the pressure of huddling against windows. Many more were trying to escape the heat, which reached over 1,000 degrees in some places. The New York Times reported on phone conversations that placed numerous people in walled-off rooms, comparatively safe from the heat, before the north tower collapsed. But for those who couldn't reach shelter or make for an exit (impossible from the 92nd floor up), jumping may have been a less agonizing death than burning in such intense heat.

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