Desperation makes your mind work in strange ways. In 1983 I was 12 years old and I was in the nosebleed of a soccer stadium in Argentina, there was a riot and police gassed us. Trapped and not being able to breath I was actually considering to jump to the grassy area outside the stadium...thinking that maybe, just maybe, the grass below would break my fall.
@@fontendeI wonder if the people that build these building could put steps or bars on the outside of the windows so that you could get down if something happened? Or could the even install them on building that are already there?
Seeing that video and photos of the guy trying to shimmy down the North Tower really bothered me.. He was so close and the open/broken window was just sad. Bothered me for a while.
People from inside the towers, were reporting via phone, that some of the floors were collapsing. If you were near a window, on a level where the floor, or a partial collapse of the above floor came down. The rush of air this would produce, would be enough to force someone unprepared to be blown out.
I have watched and studied that video hundreds of times over the years. (I am a former journalist.) He was trying to enter the window below the floor he was trying to escape. He loses his grip while trying to maneuver his legs to break the window. There is a slight delay before he begins to fall. He is either trying to tighten his grip or he is trying one last time to break the glass with his fist. It's hard to say which scenario is correct. There's news footage on RU-vid of his fall but it is from a far distance. Despite the distance you can clearly see that slight delay before he falls. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XjuDkAbRNDg.html It was a man's last attempt at survival which was quickly followed by the realization that he was about to die. All in a matter of seconds. A moment most of us will never experience, immortalized on film forever.
I remember as a little girl, neighborhood kids and i used to climb up this old dilapidated building near our house and it was about 6 stories tall, nothing too bad, but pretty scary to us kids whom were all under 10. It did not help that underneath was a lot of broken glass and rocks. One day I lost my grip near the top and that horrible few seconds that I realized I was going to fall felt like an eternity, it's been 32 years and I still recall that realization that I was about to fall, injure myself badly or possibly even die. I thankfully, miraculously walked away with only a few nasty cuts and aches but I never forgot that panicky sensation of knowing i was going to fall. My experience does NOT even come close to this poor man's experience, I don't even think id want to know how scared he must have felt in those moments. 9/11 stories like his and the one other gentlemen who attempted to use a tablecloth as a makeshift parachute as he fell break my heart 😢 it had to have been hell inside those towers for these poor people to jump/climb down ..May they R.I.P
I work really high in the air all day at work and sometimes I'll come home and sleep and dream that I am still at work, way up in the air and I'm about to slip and fall. In the dream, I'm usually in a very dangerous slope that I would never be on and It is terrifying, because you just keep slipping and almost falling. Then, I lose my grip and fall and wake up.
Its so wild that soon as i start getting so many 9/11 videos, i see you back to dropping some daily… not complaining its just crazy how it just hit at the same time😮. Love your videos keep dropping them❤
That one guy scaled down from 92 to 91. He didn't realize the window next to him was opened. He unfortunately kicked the window trying to break it and lost his grip and fell 91 floors. The 91st floor was the last floor in the North Tower to have at least one stairwel, accessible. He would have survived had he OF known. Pretty sad to think about.
Yes, but how would he get from the rows of windows he was on to the other windows? He would have to get around the big, concrete wall. I suppose he could swing himself around, but he probably did not think what he was doing was going to work.
The man that tried to use the rope was somewhere on around the 72-75 floor of the south tower. On the side that was facing the North Tower and plaza. Which means at the time of the impact he was almost certainly watching people fall from the North Tower rather than trying to leave. Imagine being on the 72-75 floor watching the horror in the faces of those in the north tower that were forced to jump. Being thankful it wasn’t your building. Then no more than 10 minutes later you are hanging from a rope and losing your grip.
I like your channel because I have the same interests and I’m intrigued by the tragedy of 9/11 and I’m a huge college football fan but what a combination for a RU-vid channel: unique facts about 9/11, takes and picks on college football and talking about obsolete American sporting stadiums. Most unique channel on RU-vid for sure.
I was also struck by how eerie it was to hear that muzak song playing in the plaza during Jack Taliercio’s footage. 🤯 The song was The Bee Gees-How Deep is Your Love.
That video was shown on a documentary on the National Geographic a few years after the attacks, including a narration from the guy who was filming. And seeing that at 9 years old and watching that scene in the documentary was the first time that it finally hit me how horribly people had tragically died TRYING to survive. Because before that, I'd only really seen pictures and video of just towers burning. As a kid you don't really recognize the loss of life. But that footage made it clear as day in my young mind. And it's horrified me ever since.
I was 21 or 22 when it happened, and I remember not really going nuts until I heard a witness say to a reporter, "They're jumping from the upper floors." That was when I remember catapulting from shock to _intensely_ wanting revenge. I've never felt like that before or since. Thankfully. Of course, as we all know, it wasn't like Pearl Harbor. There was no single nation state to direct that rage. The aftermath panned out way more ambiguous and complicated than that. Unfortunately.
You could.....IDK....look them up yourself? Ever heard of google? Tell you what, next time I see the right one I'll bust over here and link it. You can't really tell if its a rope or not per say, but the video definitely exists.
@@travtuck7646Tbf, expecting sources and links being provided isn’t asking for much. Especially for topics this serious. Kinda helps with someone’s credibility
@@travtuck7646 I could look up all the videos I wanted to but because there are so many clips online of footage from that day, how would I know that I’m looking at the same video he’s referring to without him citing the source? That’s just basic.
there was a lot of jet fuel (for a flight to west coast) that went down the building core, both elevator shafts and stairways. the impact created an air pressure surge that hit every floor. there were windows blown out near the impact. i read that a chair was blown out a window below the impact. i don't know how far below or if it was occupied.
Very sad either way, I was in 3rd grade when this happened, I always thought that if I was in that situation that these poor people was in, with no escape, I would get someone to literally knock me out cold and throw me to my death because can you imagine falling being fully conscious, even if it was only for 9 to 10 seconds before hit the ground would be terrifying
I wish I saved the link for the video. But there’s a video of someone zoomed very close to the top of the tower. There are at least half a dozen people visible sticking from the windows for air. One of them is holding a light of some sort, it may be a flashlight but some speculate it could’ve been a video camera judging by the way he was holding it. Could you imagine if it was and happened to survived. That would’ve been unreal.
There are so many events from that day that I figured I was dreaming up seeing after all these years. The two jumpers holding hands is the most haunting. I remember thinking at the time that that man and woman probably knew each other 20 years or more. Anyways this story isn’t one I remember. And it’s a shame there are thousands of events that went down that morning that nobody will ever know about.
I think they literally didn't have a choice. Like imagine putting your hand on a hot frying pan. Eventually, at some point, you're gonna have to take it off
Your survival instinct is gonna make that decision for you. If you have the means to survive just a bit longer before burning to death you will, even in such a dire situation.
J'aime beaucoup ton travail autour du WTC et du 911 ! C'est a la fois intéressant pour la compréhension de ce drame mais aussi pour le devoir de mémoire. Very good job !!
@@isabelle_patatoiide J'ai découvert la chaîne il n'y a pas longtemps. Je reste toujours autant "sous le choc" de ces évènements qui ont pourtant eu lieu il y a déjà 23 ans. Je rêvais de pouvoir un jour visiter ces tours et j'aurais beaucoup aimais les voir reconstruites "en mieux"... Aujourd'hui j'attend que la tour numéro deux soit terminer pour aller visiter le site.
@@tibodoudou "sous le choc", c'est exactement ça... je crois que le monde ne se remettra jamais complètement de cet évènement des plus atroces du début du siècle. Mais New York reste debout... bien sûr, les tours jumelles sont irremplaçables et laisseront toujours un vide.. mais c'est extra de voir comme le site a été reconstruit, en effet c'est un lieu à absolument visiter (quand on n'a pas peur de l'avion ^^). Je n'irai jamais là-bas mais je me console de visites virtuelles en photos, vidéos.. :] Hier j'ai trouvé dans un commentaire, un lien menant au site du mémorial et j'ai regardé des photos d'objets appartenant à des victimes, ayant été retrouvés, et le fait de voir le degré de dégradation ou la conservation quasi intacte d'un objet à l'autre, est vraiment impressionnant !
What was needed to escape was actually a combination of what the guy did that shimmied down 10-12 floors and what the guy with the rope did. Had the guy with the rope connected something with metal to the end of the rope he could’ve swung it downward to bust out the window of the floor below him. Then he could’ve shimmied down with the rope and climbed into the window directly below that he busted out. He could’ve kept doing this process until reaching a floor that could reach the stairs.
I have a video idea, there was a story of a jumper that survived for a while with only her upper torso left, the legs were gone, and a firefighter looked at her while she was screaming at him to call her daughter over and over again, have u heard of it? And btw, where can i find the video of the guy using his body to lower him down between the two columns? Not the Jack Talierco video but the other one
I've seen both of the pieces of footage referenced in this video (though not in a while, so my recollections may be imperfect.) First, I personally think _that was_ a body being projected out the window of the tower. What I saw was a middle-aged man in work attire among thick smoke, dust, and debris. It makes sense for several reasons. The pressure in those offices would have been enormous. The furniture, the paperwork, the victims and their clothing, the flooring, everything that's burning is filling that contained space with smoke and gases, which are essentially "pushing" outwards. I'm actually surprised there isn't more footage like this. I think it makes sense that a victim would be rested against that window- or very close nearby- at the moment it blows. That victim (surely dead, you only have a lung full or two of toxic smoke until it's lights out, soon after which you're gone) would have likely been trying to break that window- until being inevitably overcome. He just wasn't able to get it done in time. And so when the overpressure occurs, the body is going to be part of the eruption. Unfortunately. This is what I think _likely_ happened. To be fair, it all comes down to whether an individual believes they see a body in the footage. I remember being sure of it. But again, I have not seen it in several years. As for the person who fell while trying to descend down: I remember being disgusted by the on sight "commentary". I don't know if it was the person filming, or some idiot alongside, but hearing it may cause you to lose faith in humanity. It's glibly indifferent and patronizing, I would say even cruel. Whoever that dude is, he sucks. The background music, the Billy Joel song, _is very_ surreal. To be clear, it's not a song that was added as an edit in post, you're hearing "Always a Woman" as it was being played by the speakers outside the towers. The effect is eerie and quite disturbing, this catchy, pleasant tune underscoring a man about to fall 90 floors. I _don't recall_ him having any kind of rope device, but I may have been overloaded by what I was seeing ("commentary bro" particularly triggered me), it's possible I simply missed it. To me it looked like he was simply trying to _very carefully_ scoot down a sloping portion of the tower, and it appears to work for a bit, until suddenly he starts to slide down uncontrollably fast, and he sort of separates from the tower beneath him, and passes out of frame. He helicopters downward several meters, and then he's gone. You do not see his impact. It's challenging footage, for more than one reason, but I think it's important that it exists. It's what happened, warts and all, and I think that record matters for the sake of future generations. It's history.
I'm named after Kyle Reese from terminator in terminator 2 on the storm drain scene with Arnold and John Connor going through the tunnel it says caution 9-11 9feet 11 inches? And the possibility of nuclear war like terminator would be terrifying! Rip twin towers❤️ love your videos
It's too bad you didn't add the footage of the video ur talking about. I've sen the one where the guy makes it down 10 floors or whatever but I can't recall the video ur talking about here where the guy is using a rope or sheet or whatever
To elaborate on the so called "person" getting blown out if you watch the footage, you can see that whatever it was actually comes from the mechanical/HVAC floor below the uppermost sky lobby. Being that it was an open air walkway for ventilation, it's more than likely just some light debris being blown out of the ventilation system, possibly due to a part of a floor collapsing.
Does anyone know where to find the footage of the corner of the building. I believe the camera wasn't focused on the area it was on the bottom left of the shot, but it appears to be the corner of the building blown out, and there's strings of people holding hands jumping off. It must of been like 5-6 within a minute. The camera man does not notice but I remember watching it on this particular footage, it was so surreal.
I know the exact video you're talking about. I saw the footage used in a 9/11 documentary I used to watch when I was like 10 and it always stuck out to me. I got to see it again in the full video last year and in higher quality than I was used to. It was longer showing the exact moments when he attempted to climb down after waving what looked to be a suit jacket and then it even showed his fall until a building blocked the rest of his descent. The documentary freezed the clip just after he had lost his grip. It's a chilling capture.
That video when that lady that called about what to do when they told her to stay with all the other people on that floor. I would have been fucked that i'm out of here and everyone else should of too.. And? It ain't worth keeping that job on something like that happened. If I was a fireman I would never of went up. I would of quit the job and wouldn't care what anyone said about it. And i'm sure I won't be the only one with the expressions on their faces..
20+ years after and we don't have alternative methods of evacuation still except stairs, no one buying parachutes, as i know the tests to extinguish vertical object with fire helicopters by special gun failed several years ago because of winds and complexity to no crush themselves into. Many ideas after this of special gandola lifts goes nowhere, personal drone which holds 100kilos still years away, ironically current drones war in Ukraine may develop such, they trying to lift the biggest cargo possible but it's more airplane than helicopter-like.
I wish you would have linked these videos you're talking about. I stopped watching because maybe you should have used that footage while you were talking about this?
And among them (is he) who says, "Grant leave (for) me and (do) not put me to trial." Surely, in the trial they have fallen. And indeed, Hell (will) surely surround the disbelievers. [At-Taubah 9:49]
Hey Ginger, here's a 9/11 video idea: the Greenmarket Farmer's Market at the WTC. People don't realize that vendors were at the World Trade Center selling fruits and vegetables the morning of the attacks
The cloth that blew out the window is said to be an explosive jacket. And truly it really does look like one. It’s sort of shaped like a men’s long jacket and dark black in color. I’m not saying it is an explosive jacket, only that it was discussed on videos in the past.
