@@kitjohnson7714 Regarding Jones' theory that nanothermite was used to bring down the towers, and the assertion that thermite and nanothermite composites were found in the dust and debris were found following the collapse of the three buildings, which was concluded to be proof that explosives brought down the buildings,[9][10][11][15] Brent Blanchard, author of "A History of Explosive Demolition in America",[92] states that questions about the viability of Jones' theories remain unanswered, such as the fact that no demolition personnel noticed any telltale signs of thermite during the eight months of debris removal following the towers' collapse. Blanchard also stated that a verifiable chain of possession needs to be established for the tested beams, which did not occur with the beams Jones tested, raising questions of whether the metal pieces tested could have been cut away from the debris pile with acetylene torches, shears, or other potentially contaminated equipment while on site, or exposed to trace amounts of thermite or other compounds while being handled, while in storage, or while being transferred from Ground Zero to memorial sites.[93] Dave Thomas of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, noting that the residue in question was claimed to be thermitic because of its iron oxide and aluminum composition, pointed out that these substances are found in many items common to the towers. Thomas stated that in order to cut through a vertical steel beam, special high-temperature containment must be added to prevent the molten iron from dropping down, and that the thermite reaction is too slow for it to be practically used in building demolition. Thomas pointed out that when Jesse Ventura hired New Mexico Tech to conduct a demonstration showing nanothermite slicing through a large steel beam, the nanothermite produced copious flame and smoke but no damage to the beam, even though it was in a horizontal, and therefore optimal position.[94] Preparing a building for a controlled demolition takes considerable time and effort.[95] The tower walls would have had to be opened on dozens of floors.[9] Thousands of pounds of explosives, fuses and ignition mechanisms would need to be sneaked past security and placed in the towers[9][96] without the tens of thousands of people working in the World Trade Center noticing.[1][53][95][96] Referring to a conversation with Stuart Vyse, a professor of psychology, an article in the Hartford Advocate asks, "How many hundreds of people would you need to acquire the explosives, plant them in the buildings, arrange for the airplanes to crash [...] and, perhaps most implausibly of all, never breathe a single word of this conspiracy?"[97]
I have heard that someone who survived those attacks who was in the second tower that got hit and saw the first tower that got struck had their inner voice tell them to get out of the building. They ignored the announcement over the building’s P.A. system that it was safe to stay in the building and they ended up getting out of the building just in time.
Yup I wouldn’t have sat around either…fireman are on their way so even they don’t know what they are dealing with untill they get on site…imo one of the biggest things that prevented more people from getting out was all the injured people moving slowly…if you were first to take off you would have had a real fighting chance…even if you were injured.
I thought some people dug their way out of an elevator through dry wall with some window washing tools? Then they went down the stairs and got out. If they had waited for someone to rescue them they would have died. In any circumstance if you can do a self rescue, do it!
I've watched almost all of his 9/11 content. RUclips should help him do what he does not block him. It helps people build awareness of the intricacies of 9/11 and helps people put a lot of the conspiracy theories to bed.
I had wondered if it would have been possible to use fire hoses that are on each floor in those glass cabinets throughout the building. Break a window, and string the hose down a few stories, then climb down and break into a lower window.
I don’t think they had access to get to the fire hoses, the people that was trapped in the offices on the floors . I think the people had to go in the hallways to get the access to the fires hoses . And all the hallways was filled with fire and smoke
MGM fire 1980 it took 3 hours to evacuate just hundreds of people after putting out the fire, and some of them scale down by sheet and curtain, this is highly risk that need time to decide even for a 26 floor building. As for the twins tower that fall to the footprint within an hour it happened too fast for people to believe what was going to happen
There was a guy that created a rope to allow him to go down 2 floors. You could tell he was trying to break a window with something in his hand but just couldnt hold on any longer and fell
Really interesting, bro. Helps me to understand this on a human level. Thanks I also imagine how frightening it would have been trapped & it's easy to think what you would do to try and survive. I imagined unravelling a fire hose and winding it out of the window & sort of abseiling down to a lower floor & then hope to get another hose & repeat. Is a bit far fetched. God bless all those good people on that day x
I will have to find it again, but there is a real story of a man in the south tower who was near the impact zone. His group went up the stairs at first to around the upper 80's and he said the smoke was getting so think, people were just starting to lay down in the stairs and pass out. He went on that floor to another staircase (the one that was passable) and went down and made it out of the building. His story was important though, that the smoke was already getting so think above the zone, people were already passing out.
@jamiethornton6101 you're amazing thank you but I actually found it the other day without even trying, just scrolling through videos. The story is so amazing I can't believe I never heard it before. He heard a voice that led him to that staircase as everyone around him was dying and was actually the last one to make it out of the south tower. Woke up from a coma 3 days after the collapse!
When I was in high school, my buddy’s father was in the FDNY. He brought home a shard of glass from the twin towers. It was real thick and had an aquamarine greenish hue to it. Something like 95-99% of the glass was pulverized into dust on 9/11. Very few pieces of glass were ever found. He also brought home a small i-beam, maybe 8’ long, pure steel. It must’ve weighed 50lbs, that small hunk of metal.
@Kruimeltjegek it was different because it was an industrial grade glass of a type I had never seen before. It was thicker and heavier than the type of glass people would encounter in their homes. The glass sort of looked like obsidian. Very cleanly chipped along the edges and sides.
Was the glass mounted from the inside or outside? If it was mounted from the inside, there's a chance you could hit it hard enough from the outside and pop the pane out of its frame rather than break it.
I always thought that if anyone trapped base jumped for a hobby and thought enough to store a parachute in their office "just in case", they could've survived. *I'm NOT speaking for myself. I'm deathly afraid of heights so even with a parachute, I can't honestly say I would or wouldn't do this. I have never been in that type of situation. That was just something that crossed my mind thinking on it.
Ya know, that does make sense that if I happened to work on one of the top floors of a skyscraper, I may have very well thought about storing a parachute in my desk in case of the one in a million (but nevertheless, still possible), chance that I’d ever have to jump from one of the windows 90+ floors up in order to avoid burning alive from a raging fire, or choking to death on the smoke. And I would not be surprised (especially SINCE 9/11), if someone working that high up (someone obsessed with figuring out ways to save themselves from various plausible life or death situations) hadn’t also thought of that idea (or even went as far as to bring a parachute into their office and stored it in their desk).
@@rickbrenner6079 I definitely think it can be done. I googled the lowest you can jump and got different answers. Basically 100-300ft. the WTC's were 1,300+ from the roof so that confirms it CAN be done. I hope & pray I'll NEVER be in that type of predicament. I can't even imagine what was going through their minds, especially the ones who were too afraid to jump for a quick end. If wasn't too scared of heights and worked in a skyscraper, I would probably look into base jumping lol. For now, I'll keep my feet firmly on the ground. hahahaha
@@rickbrenner6079 my thoughts since 2001. A VERY experienced skydiver type. He probably would have had to do a running start from as high as he could get on the tower. A 10 seconds, a hundred stories to get air and maneuver away
So just to put it in perspective, when the first tower collapsed the weight of the floors above the strike impact was the same weight as the RMS Titanic. Pressing down on top of floors that are no longer there as the plane literally deleted them. God bless all those innocent people murdered that day.
That's why the jet fuel didn't need to melt the steel beams. It only needed to get hot enough to weaken the handful that remained, and then all the weight above would create enough pressure to bend them and start a chain reaction.
@@reignman30I’ve always been on the fence on this one, but anyone that’s being unbiased has to say that’s the most plausible & viable explanation out at the current time. That said, it’s took a long time to get here & there’s still a ton of other peculiarities that haven’t been addressed as well. Regardless, it was a extremely dark day nobody that witnessed it will ever forget.
I would like to point out absent the airplane those floors held that RMS Titanic for 33 years without fail what caused the rest of it to give up under the impact???
Honestly it was a death trap, no way to escape in the event of an emergency obviously. If I were a New Yorker I would not have want to work there at all. But there is a story of one of the survivors still lives now her name is Michelle Rosado she worked in the 95 floor, 2nd tower she left the scene her office right when the plane hit on the 1st tower just amazing and she took the elevator, no way to get down using the stairs. Always trust your intuition my friends.
I think many people in the north tower were very dazed. There was extreme smoke and heat. One documentary I watched said the heat inside was near 2000F. A good percentage of the 200 so called jumpers were people so confused and desperate for air they simply walked out of the building and fell to their deaths. The woman who was waiving her arms for most of the north towers time right in the impact zone is an incredible reality. She looks so small with the enormous mangled flight 11 just above her. I worked in the South tower in the mid 1990s on the 92 floor and I can honestly say the extreme height and wind alone would make it so impossible. You’re looking down at the rooftops of 50 and 60 story towers and can see the Statue of Liberty out over the water. It would take nerves of titanium and a singular focus to not succomb to fear. Meanwhile the other building is being rammed with a jetliner and a 400 foot diameter fireball erupts and you only have around 70 minutes before the south tower goes. Survivors descending the stairwells in north tower said the north tower shook when the south tower collapsed. There was also a lot of jet fuel on some of the north towers columns, which would be slick. Idk, the height just seems impossible.
If you watch the Naudet brothers documentary, Jules Naudet was inside The North Tower lobby filming everything and you can see how much the North Tower shook when the South Tower collapsed.
Even as a kid visiting the Twin Towers in the fall of 2000 I thought it was stupid and an anomaly that they built the stairways of the WTC in the middle of the buildings instead of in the corners like literally EVERY OTHER SKYSCRAPER. Who would have thought that design flaw would have killed over 2K office workers?
That man who tried to scale the tower downward could have been George Willig in reverse if he'd succeeded in getting all the way down. Trying to break a window from the outside might not have been possible.
Yeah, I don't know how you would have enough force to break a window without pushing yourself off, let alone the strength to do it after scaling down several floors. It's not like these were thin house windows
There were no windows in the mechanical floors though. They had catwalks. So somebody had to get to the nearest mechanical floor. However, I don't think the timeline allows for it - if you start scaling down in the north tower RIGHT AWAY then either the plane impact of the south tower makes you fall off, or if you wait the collapse of the south tower makes you fall off.
No, if you were shimmying down, climbers call it "chimneying", you've got it made when you get to the curved convergence of the metal 35 feet above the ground. Because if you look closer the metal has a fist sized gap in it that you can wedge your hands and feet into. Climbers call that "crack climbing". If you put almost any shoe sideways into that crack and then pull your knee up your foot will be locked solid. For hands the same thing, slide your hand in and then make a fist, you'd be surprised how much weight that one fist can hold. Your whole body, actually. That last section is an easy downclimb.
You're forgetting how exhausted someone would be if they chimney'd that far. Plus according to my measurements, you're still 50-60 feet off the ground where the beams converge, so it's still a lethal fall or jump at that point.
2:57 when you describing shimming down those towers, i literally got the CHILLS a VERY BITTER CHILL at imagining having to do that :S :( i keep thinking of that one poor man who was trying to climb down the face of the building but lost his grip :( they caught it on camera :(
There might have been a way down inside the North Tower structure with some clearing of debris. The destroyed core area was several floors high but a team of people might have been able to find a way through this debris. But the problems were massive. The volume of very toxic smoke inside made it virtually impossible to mount an escape. And also, we have no idea where the thermals were rising. The radiant, rising heat in any open areas might have been unbearable. I imagine that any holes in the internal structure would have been conduits for incredible heat that would have killed anyone attempting a descent. One only has to look at the incredible volume of smoke rising off the tower to realize that massive combustion was going on.
There was a guy who almost made it down to one of the upper mechanical floors from the outside. He was filmed by Jack Taliercio. I think he made it down to floor 75 just above the sky lobby and the mechanical floor was on 73. He was trying to break the window from what people can tell from the footage but had he scaled down a little more to the mechanical floor, he could of just dropped on to the perimeter catwalk between the exterior columns and the interior louvres because the exterior columns on mech floors had no windows. He would of then been greeted by doors in the interior louvers but perhaps one was unlocked or he might be able to break through the louvres themselves. Whether the guy knew this about those floors is unknown or if it was even common knowledge for people who worked in the towers. I only found out about this recently.
I remember that guy. A lot of editing in the news coverage of that morning. All those jumpers. For a long time I was wondering if I dreamt it up. The absolute worst was the ones that jumped in pairs holding hands. They always got torn apart pretty quickly. There was a guy who said he had survived the tower collapse. Riding down, said “It was like a roller coaster” I remember that SOB saying. I thought it was true until I was watching coverage on the first anniversary and they we’re reporting that guy wasn’t even at ground zero that morning. What really stuck with me during the roll call of those that perished. The ages of those people were overwhelmingly in their 20s and 30s. All those people had families that were destroyed from all this. And all those children without a parent. Or both in an instant.
He fell when the South tower collapse. It's either from the down drift of the air as the south tower fell or the North Tower violent swaying as the south tower's perimeter wall slamms against the facade of the building.
@@jpmnky It's not just you. I remember seeing a lot of jumpers that day, scenes that I haven't seen since. Even looking up the news coverage from that day on RUclips, I'm not seeing what they originally showed. I understand some level of editing, but it still kind of bothers me that the major news networks dumbed down their footage after the fact.
South stairway in the south tower was intact from top to bottom after the plain hit. Their were a few who managed to survive using that stairway and firefighter Orio Palmer used that stairway to reach some survivers
In the south tower because United 175 struck on side, one stairwell was passable from top to bottom where only 18 people found it and escaped before it collapsed. In the north tower because of the angle of American 11 all three of the building stairwell became impassible from 92nd floor up which meant that no one from 92nd floor or above in north tower was able to escape.
I always like to think about this but mostly about the people on the 92nd floor. They initially didn't have to deal with the smoke and fire(most of them) like the people on the upper floors and they were just one floor above the survival zone. Could they have done something? Like maybe making a hole on the floor( if that was possible) or something else? They were So close from surviving.
I saw in that video of the waving woman that there were jumpers below her while she was probably on the 94th floor. Three of them in succession actually. That always stood out to me because they clearly were below the impact zone and the South Tower wasn't even hit yet. I really wonder what the inside must have looked like that led these people to jump. The stairwell was definitely open from where they jumped, but they could've actually been pinned by fire or couldn't even get out of the room they were in.
@@RuneCodeI've seen that video too. What you have to remember is that there was no clear cut off point below which you were safe. The plane likley damaged both above and below the impact zone. Alot of the jet fuel probably ran down on to the floors immediately below setting them alight. It's likley the area they were in was very badly damaged possibly on fire. Despite being below the impact zone it's clear they couldn't get out. Possibly the fire reached the room they was in and they had nowhere to go. It's disturbing footage to say the least.
I watched a documentary on the building process of the twin towers recently, each floor was covered with steel sheets making it virtually impossible to dig a hole through
That first picture of the Towers on your vid they look really nice . It would have been a nightmare to shimmy down those slick alumimum pillars withe soleless business shoes or socks awful to think about.
The heat was probably ridiculous. The outside metal was probably hundreds of degrees so there's no griping something that hot. RIP to all the people who made that choice
Would take too much athleticism and no fear of heights. I think they make glass too thick to break without much help. It would be too much of a time crunch to escape as well as the hazard of the fires, temperatures, and smoke, etc.
I remember the clip of the man in a suit trying to scale down the tower, he slipped and fell. You could hear the music from the plaza in the background. It was tragic! 😫
even if this brave man got all the way down he would have eventually got to the arch frame bottom where its still atleast 30ft drop which can still be deadly, it widens at this arch part and wouldn't be possible to shimmy any further, however maybe he could have got there and yelled for firefighters and they have ladders etc who knows
Imagine going from sipping your morning coffee and perusing biweekly sales reports, to hopelessly shimmying down the side of a sheer steel-and-concrete edifice 1000+ feet in the air, surrounded by unfathomable heat, toxic smoke and plummeting bodies, with absolutely no warning and no context for what just happened, all within a matter of minutes. The transience of human life is incomprehensible.
Let’s not be that naive. The Towers had always been a target for terrorism so anyone working in either of the two should have that thought in the back of their mind. However I do I agree with you on the extremity here. Most people would think they would have time to react in a terroristic situation. In this case not so. RIP to all the victims may they get the justice due to them and their families.
There is a video on here of a Helicopter Pilot and a First responder circling the tops of the Towers to see if anybody was on the Roof. There were times the whole Roof could be scene on the North Tower and he said he would 100% of tried to pluck a Survivor off the Top had someone had been there. He said he trusted the Pilot to be able to get th hem close enough but ots all Mute because no one was there.
Nobody could go up there. The door was lock and some were trapped. Half way.. the only way is to try for everyone to have gotten out when the 1st plane hit.
Can you do a video on what conditions were like in the North Tower stairwells? We all know that all three were impassible through the impact zone--but to what degree? Were the stairs themselves still there, but just blocked with debris? Was it a wall of flames? Did the stairs themselves cease to exist--even if the fires were put out and the debris was cleared? Like, had the towers somehow remained standing, would firefighters have been able to clear the stairwells to do rescues?
There's a survivor story, can't remember the name, where a guy describes looking up into a stairwell in the north tower from directly below the impact zone. He described it as being full of black-charred chunks of sheet-rock, completely blocking the way. Being below the impact zone, he took the stairs down no problem. But based on this, it seems that if someone knew that the core walls were only sheet-rock, you could simply move the chunks of charred sheet-rock out of the way to clear the stairwell. It's likely this is what the top of the stairwells looked like as well for those unfortunate to be above the impact zone. I'm sure with the rest of the debris, the stairwells themselves were extremely hard to locate above and directly within the impact zone.
@@sodiumvapor13you have to remember the smoke. Clearing the stairwell would take time and it was full of smoke making it a impossible task. The stairs at the impact zone would have been unbearably hot too I imagine.
@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 Yes the heat and the smoke is likely why no one found them above the impact zone. And if they did, they realized there was no practical way to clear them.
Love your videos and coverage of this historic event especially with your recent issues with demonetization. My question is how would the event have been different if the attack occurred at night? Obviously it would have been very difficult to aim for the building but I wonder how the outcome would have changed Thanks
Maybe they should start putting in solid pegs into these buildings so that people can climb down in case of emergencies, sort of likecwhat they have on radio towers etc
I remember seeing a video of a person who tried this, or well at least something similar, going down a few floors from the outside, but unfortunately he fell.
Since in the beginning there are images showing the window washer, I was wondering had it been possible for the trapped people to unlock the door to the roof, it could be possible to transfer some people down through the window washer.
Shimmy down the stairs below the impact zone, carry a fire extinguisher in your briefcase to break open a window from the outside and take the intact stairwell the rest of the way down. Would that be possible? Highly unlikely.
Maybe owning a parachute would be the only realistic way to survive…they aren’t cheap but they aren’t of reach as far as cost…1500 to 3000 dollars…if I worked that high up it might have been worth investing in one…especially since so many people jumped….💁🏽♂️
In my head scaling outside and breaking back in sounds good in theory; but I think would be a lot scarier in real life, just to overcome the shakes, let alone the wind and the physical exhaustion, truly amazing anyone even attempted it. Probably all my efforts would have been spent on getting to the roof.
Do you think it would have been possible, had people been able to access the roof, to use the window washing equipment to get down past the impact zone?
I might be wrong, but if people made it to the roof of the buildings, could they not have just figured out how to set up the window washing machine and taken it down and sent it back up for people? Idk exactly where they kept it or how they set it up so I’m sure it was very unlikely, but it’s still a safer and interesting thing to think about
i've always thought the roof should be open for safety reasons or atleast the key to the roof should be top floor not whereever else it was kept , ridiculous that it wasn'y available incase of disaster
I have a question about people in the elevators when the planes hit. Did the elevators that were below the impact zones get their cables cut & then just free fall? What happened to the elevators above the impact zones, & did anyone survive that were in elevators prior to the collapses of the towers? Were people trapped alive in elevators prior to the collapse? Not trying to be morbid, but I just wonder what happens to elevators in a situation like 911
On RUclips you can find a documentary called inside the towers, I think that the name. It covers the story of a group that was traped in an elevator and how they escape.
Not sure about shimmy'ing down. Cause it's the initial dismount from the window to the outside walls, i.e. getting your back and legs locked on the supporting walls at the same time that's scary .....cause yes, your legs and back have to lock-in at the same time, and there is nothing stabilizing you while you try to get that done. If your timing is off on either side of the wall,.... its "good night - & thanks for playing"! Personally, I wouldn't have tried that without some type of supporting rope tied to me while I get my legs and back on the walls. That being said, I dont think I would have jumped either. Perhaps kept searching for a way around the damaged stairway.
The answer is simple. No, it wasn't. I love how the day I almost died is discussed like a macabre history lesson from kids who were mostly in diapers or earlier. Why don't you ask people who were actually there any of these questions instead of speaking in rambling conjectures?
Even if u tried to scale down, the fire and smoke was on all sides fairly quickly after it spread, the only way i see it is if you tied a curtain and scaled down as a rope a few floors at a time and repeated it imo
Those pictures are amazing. It’s always sad to see them sometimes because they were so unique and unfortunately no one will build anything like it again.
I had always thought a roof rescue from either tower couldn’t happen. However, I watched a video a couple of weeks ago where they spoke to a rescue helicopter pilot. He said, and it shows on the video his copter took, that the N Tower had a corner with no smoke. He said he could have, or at least attempted, to rescue people from that roof. He seemed surprised that no one was up there.
Heat moves through metal, it would be impossible to shimmy down past the impact zone. The floors were so hot in the upper floors of the trade center the people were forced onto their desks and many jumped because the heat transfer turned the floors into skillets. People several floors above the impact still had their shoes melting to the floor because of the heat transfer through the metal.
it wasn't heat that forced them out. The were many people clinging to the facade of the building, the waving woman in particular on the 94th floor who appeared at 8:49am and held on to an in tact outer column for the entire ordeal is a great example of the total lack of heat, even at the point of impact.
Since it's fantasy, I bet an "Alex Honnold" type, and all geared up could have made it down.. I wonder if a parachute would have helped. My guess is you'd have to run and jump from the very top in order to be able to get far enough away and pop it before splat. Hey, it works in the movies! lol
If you could find a working elevator on top and it wasn't broken they could have taken you down to the lobby becauee they were programmed to do that in a fire emergency. I think one woman survived this way but it was pretty lucky.
Dont forget the strong core where all the stairwells were took the brunt of the plane's impact. I'd bet the "debris" was large sections of the smoldering aircraft twisted and jammed there. Nobody was getting past that.
Craziest attempt I saw was a person created a plank that allowed them to step a couple feet outside the building. But then three people from the floor above them all run out on fire and jump without even looking below. One of them slightly bumped the person and they lost their balance and fell
Imagine pulling that off, scaling down 80 floors only to get to that bottom lobby and realizing you can't go any further because of the design of the building and you're still 50-60 feet off the ground. Because yeah, according to my estimates, you're still 50-60 feet off the ground where those beams converge at the lobby. You're not going to survive that fall/jump. Or imagine you get that far down and then the building collapses.
I was wondering if the door to the roof was open, could they try to get below the point of impact using a window cleaning cradle, if that worked they could break the window, climb in and climb down the stairs
What about...When they build these Tall Monster Skyscrapers they incorporate stylish steps to walk down? Whatever you want to call them steps ladders. Would that be possible ? Myself ? I am scared of heights and I would never had worked in that building. Why oh why. Ego ? When I had seen pictures of the inside ... It looked cheaply made.
I didn’t realize but the first tower to be hit (The North Tower) stayed up for over a hour after being hit and the majority of everyone in the floors below the impact zone escaped. But sadly the ones above impact zones had little to no possibility of survival due to the buildings core beyond destroyed on there floor which housed all 3 of the stairwells and all the elevators had been blown out :(
I just watched the most wild story about the woman that was in the South Tower on the 101 floor and she didn't listen to the security or her boss when they told them just to stay where they were after they are the first explosion. If she hadn't listened she would not have made it but no one else seemed to have
Rhe minimum heat required to melt steel is oxygen concentrated with acetylene or thermite, and a few other things. Jet fuel and basic office supplies can't burn at even half the temperature required to melt steel
@@standup2982 lmao. For 1 if a few floors where the plane hit buckled and the bottom 80 floors that were undamaged and spent 30 years holding up the above floor stayed standing then yea their story of lies would make sense. 2, molten steel at 911 is one of oldest and original red flags of the ordeal. Videos and pictures of molten steel were easy to find throughout Google and youtube 15-20 years ago but China owns them now and 90% of everything has been deleted and censored. Also, before any of the steel could be examined it was quickly loaded onto barges and sent to China to be recycled. How convenient
You CANT Shimmy down. The concept is totally silly ! It’s polished aluminum siding. You would slip 408 times. Plus the wind .... the ONLY thing that woulda saved anyone above the impact was a parachute 🪂 and knowing how to skydive 🪂
the only way I could see you could realistically surviving that situation is to break through the floors by punching a hole through them. if you had some power tools or hammer with hard nails. Not sure if the towers had some up there for whatever reason. Otherwise i wonder if you could rope climb yourself down from the elevator then hope you can find an open slot or pry one open once you've reached the elevator itself if it doesn't move OR if you see people with in the small spacing in between the doors maybe you could yell for someone to let you in
Imagine some scales the whole way down from like the 100th floor or so, just like you described. It takes them a good hour to do it. They're down to like the 10th floor, then they feel the building start shaking violently, it breaks them loose and they hit the ground, just to look up and see the whole building coming down on top of them. And they just say to themselves "welp, at least i tried"
It’s crazy how all these years later we still speculate this tragedy, I’ve been on the hunt for the infamous LOL SUPERMAN video, I did happen to find a rare video of people jumping…one I haven’t seen in HD. Crazy, god rest all of their souls!
If people knew the towers were about to collapse, more people would´ve tried that. But since nobody knew, they held on to the hope of being rescued...
I was watching that morning. I never thought they would collapse. I thought they would remain standing like the Empire State Building had.
I think a good portion probably died from the smoke before hand
@@kitjohnson7714 Regarding Jones' theory that nanothermite was used to bring down the towers, and the assertion that thermite and nanothermite composites were found in the dust and debris were found following the collapse of the three buildings, which was concluded to be proof that explosives brought down the buildings,[9][10][11][15] Brent Blanchard, author of "A History of Explosive Demolition in America",[92] states that questions about the viability of Jones' theories remain unanswered, such as the fact that no demolition personnel noticed any telltale signs of thermite during the eight months of debris removal following the towers' collapse. Blanchard also stated that a verifiable chain of possession needs to be established for the tested beams, which did not occur with the beams Jones tested, raising questions of whether the metal pieces tested could have been cut away from the debris pile with acetylene torches, shears, or other potentially contaminated equipment while on site, or exposed to trace amounts of thermite or other compounds while being handled, while in storage, or while being transferred from Ground Zero to memorial sites.[93] Dave Thomas of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, noting that the residue in question was claimed to be thermitic because of its iron oxide and aluminum composition, pointed out that these substances are found in many items common to the towers. Thomas stated that in order to cut through a vertical steel beam, special high-temperature containment must be added to prevent the molten iron from dropping down, and that the thermite reaction is too slow for it to be practically used in building demolition. Thomas pointed out that when Jesse Ventura hired New Mexico Tech to conduct a demonstration showing nanothermite slicing through a large steel beam, the nanothermite produced copious flame and smoke but no damage to the beam, even though it was in a horizontal, and therefore optimal position.[94]
Preparing a building for a controlled demolition takes considerable time and effort.[95] The tower walls would have had to be opened on dozens of floors.[9] Thousands of pounds of explosives, fuses and ignition mechanisms would need to be sneaked past security and placed in the towers[9][96] without the tens of thousands of people working in the World Trade Center noticing.[1][53][95][96] Referring to a conversation with Stuart Vyse, a professor of psychology, an article in the Hartford Advocate asks, "How many hundreds of people would you need to acquire the explosives, plant them in the buildings, arrange for the airplanes to crash [...] and, perhaps most implausibly of all, never breathe a single word of this conspiracy?"[97]
@@kitjohnson7714 source for that?
@@Kylehikes47 sourced by two eyes like everyone else who watched it. Have you got a pair?🪴🫡
I have heard that someone who survived those attacks who was in the second tower that got hit and saw the first tower that got struck had their inner voice tell them to get out of the building. They ignored the announcement over the building’s P.A. system that it was safe to stay in the building and they ended up getting out of the building just in time.
Yes that was Brian Clarke
Yup I wouldn’t have sat around either…fireman are on their way so even they don’t know what they are dealing with untill they get on site…imo one of the biggest things that prevented more people from getting out was all the injured people moving slowly…if you were first to take off you would have had a real fighting chance…even if you were injured.
I wouldn’t have sat around either; no way.
I thought some people dug their way out of an elevator through dry wall with some window washing tools? Then they went down the stairs and got out. If they had waited for someone to rescue them they would have died. In any circumstance if you can do a self rescue, do it!
@DesertRat332 yes they did. Ended up inside bathroom of all places
Glad you're still making 9/11 videos, even though RUclips tries to stop you. You're underappreciated man.
I've watched almost all of his 9/11 content. RUclips should help him do what he does not block him. It helps people build awareness of the intricacies of 9/11 and helps people put a lot of the conspiracy theories to bed.
How is RUclips trying to stop him making videos?
@@misguidedangel6550demonetization of everything related to any “controversial” subject regardless of context. Thank the algo.
@@misguidedangel6550RUclips refuses to monetize anything “controversial “. RUclips is going down the drain hard
I had wondered if it would have been possible to use fire hoses that are on each floor in those glass cabinets throughout the building. Break a window, and string the hose down a few stories, then climb down and break into a lower window.
Great minds think alike 😅
I don’t think they had access to get to the fire hoses, the people that was trapped in the offices on the floors . I think the people had to go in the hallways to get the access to the fires hoses . And all the hallways was filled with fire and smoke
Like the way in Die hard (1988)?
Like John McLean
Somebody would’ve tried the people thought they would be rescued by the time they knew they weren’t it was too late
I think the major issue was also just that there was just very little time for anyone to escape.
Nobody knew what was going on, just too chaotic
MGM fire 1980 it took 3 hours to evacuate just hundreds of people after putting out the fire, and some of them scale down by sheet and curtain, this is highly risk that need time to decide even for a 26 floor building. As for the twins tower that fall to the footprint within an hour it happened too fast for people to believe what was going to happen
@@dintadoba4808a lot of those people were gamblers who literally refused to leave.
There was a guy that created a rope to allow him to go down 2 floors. You could tell he was trying to break a window with something in his hand but just couldnt hold on any longer and fell
I saw that clip many years ago and it's haunted me ever since.
Jesus
Where did u see this?
Really interesting, bro. Helps me to understand this on a human level.
Thanks
I also imagine how frightening it would have been trapped & it's easy to think what you would do to try and survive.
I imagined unravelling a fire hose and winding it out of the window & sort of abseiling down to a lower floor & then hope to get another hose & repeat. Is a bit far fetched.
God bless all those good people on that day x
Don’t encourage it!
I will have to find it again, but there is a real story of a man in the south tower who was near the impact zone. His group went up the stairs at first to around the upper 80's and he said the smoke was getting so think, people were just starting to lay down in the stairs and pass out. He went on that floor to another staircase (the one that was passable) and went down and made it out of the building. His story was important though, that the smoke was already getting so think above the zone, people were already passing out.
I wish you could find the video and let me know. I would love to hear that story. I've heard so many but have never heard that one
this is the story of ron di francesco
found it on youtube. name is called 9/11: Escape From The Impact Zone - Documentary.
9/11: Escape From The Impact Zone - Documentary@@RichieD_21
@jamiethornton6101 you're amazing thank you but I actually found it the other day without even trying, just scrolling through videos. The story is so amazing I can't believe I never heard it before. He heard a voice that led him to that staircase as everyone around him was dying and was actually the last one to make it out of the south tower. Woke up from a coma 3 days after the collapse!
When I was in high school, my buddy’s father was in the FDNY. He brought home a shard of glass from the twin towers. It was real thick and had an aquamarine greenish hue to it. Something like 95-99% of the glass was pulverized into dust on 9/11. Very few pieces of glass were ever found. He also brought home a small i-beam, maybe 8’ long, pure steel. It must’ve weighed 50lbs, that small hunk of metal.
isn't aquamarine just a fancy word for blue?
@Kruimeltjegek seriously. It was very thick and very heavy glass - stuff I’ve never seen before.
@Kruimeltjegek it was different because it was an industrial grade glass of a type I had never seen before. It was thicker and heavier than the type of glass people would encounter in their homes. The glass sort of looked like obsidian. Very cleanly chipped along the edges and sides.
@@Creepereye20 not quite. Maybe more of a sea foam green color😆
Was the glass mounted from the inside or outside? If it was mounted from the inside, there's a chance you could hit it hard enough from the outside and pop the pane out of its frame rather than break it.
I always thought that if anyone trapped base jumped for a hobby and thought enough to store a parachute in their office "just in case", they could've survived. *I'm NOT speaking for myself. I'm deathly afraid of heights so even with a parachute, I can't honestly say I would or wouldn't do this. I have never been in that type of situation. That was just something that crossed my mind thinking on it.
Ya know, that does make sense that if I happened to work on one of the top floors of a skyscraper, I may have very well thought about storing a parachute in my desk in case of the one in a million (but nevertheless, still possible), chance that I’d ever have to jump from one of the windows 90+ floors up in order to avoid burning alive from a raging fire, or choking to death on the smoke. And I would not be surprised (especially SINCE 9/11), if someone working that high up (someone obsessed with figuring out ways to save themselves from various plausible life or death situations) hadn’t also thought of that idea (or even went as far as to bring a parachute into their office and stored it in their desk).
@@rickbrenner6079 I definitely think it can be done. I googled the lowest you can jump and got different answers. Basically 100-300ft. the WTC's were 1,300+ from the roof so that confirms it CAN be done. I hope & pray I'll NEVER be in that type of predicament. I can't even imagine what was going through their minds, especially the ones who were too afraid to jump for a quick end. If wasn't too scared of heights and worked in a skyscraper, I would probably look into base jumping lol. For now, I'll keep my feet firmly on the ground. hahahaha
@@rickbrenner6079 my thoughts since 2001. A VERY experienced skydiver type. He probably would have had to do a running start from as high as he could get on the tower. A 10 seconds, a hundred stories to get air and maneuver away
So just to put it in perspective, when the first tower collapsed the weight of the floors above the strike impact was the same weight as the RMS Titanic. Pressing down on top of floors that are no longer there as the plane literally deleted them. God bless all those innocent people murdered that day.
That's why the jet fuel didn't need to melt the steel beams. It only needed to get hot enough to weaken the handful that remained, and then all the weight above would create enough pressure to bend them and start a chain reaction.
@@reignman30I’ve always been on the fence on this one, but anyone that’s being unbiased has to say that’s the most plausible & viable explanation out at the current time. That said, it’s took a long time to get here & there’s still a ton of other peculiarities that haven’t been addressed as well. Regardless, it was a extremely dark day nobody that witnessed it will ever forget.
I would like to point out absent the airplane those floors held that RMS Titanic for 33 years without fail what caused the rest of it to give up under the impact???
Imagine the story that guy would've had to tell had he accomplished his mission.
Theres no way anybody could break a window from the outside. IMPOSSIBLE it just cant be done
Honestly it was a death trap, no way to escape in the event of an emergency obviously. If I were a New Yorker I would not have want to work there at all. But there is a story of one of the survivors still lives now her name is Michelle Rosado she worked in the 95 floor, 2nd tower she left the scene her office right when the plane hit on the 1st tower just amazing and she took the elevator, no way to get down using the stairs. Always trust your intuition my friends.
I think many people in the north tower were very dazed. There was extreme smoke and heat. One documentary I watched said the heat inside was near 2000F. A good percentage of the 200 so called jumpers were people so confused and desperate for air they simply walked out of the building and fell to their deaths. The woman who was waiving her arms for most of the north towers time right in the impact zone is an incredible reality. She looks so small with the enormous mangled flight 11 just above her. I worked in the South tower in the mid 1990s on the 92 floor and I can honestly say the extreme height and wind alone would make it so impossible. You’re looking down at the rooftops of 50 and 60 story towers and can see the Statue of Liberty out over the water. It would take nerves of titanium and a singular focus to not succomb to fear. Meanwhile the other building is being rammed with a jetliner and a 400 foot diameter fireball erupts and you only have around 70 minutes before the south tower goes. Survivors descending the stairwells in north tower said the north tower shook when the south tower collapsed. There was also a lot of jet fuel on some of the north towers columns, which would be slick. Idk, the height just seems impossible.
If you watch the Naudet brothers documentary, Jules Naudet was inside The North Tower lobby filming everything and you can see how much the North Tower shook when the South Tower collapsed.
It was 56 minutes until the top part broke away from the damage and fires
Even as a kid visiting the Twin Towers in the fall of 2000 I thought it was stupid and an anomaly that they built the stairways of the WTC in the middle of the buildings instead of in the corners like literally EVERY OTHER SKYSCRAPER.
Who would have thought that design flaw would have killed over 2K office workers?
Design flow did not kill those people
Terrorists did
because the place with a great view is very expensive. my opinion is that we have to stop building things that we cannot extinguish.
That man who tried to scale the tower downward could have been George Willig in reverse if he'd succeeded in getting all the way down. Trying to break a window from the outside might not have been possible.
Yeah, I don't know how you would have enough force to break a window without pushing yourself off, let alone the strength to do it after scaling down several floors. It's not like these were thin house windows
There were no windows in the mechanical floors though. They had catwalks. So somebody had to get to the nearest mechanical floor. However, I don't think the timeline allows for it - if you start scaling down in the north tower RIGHT AWAY then either the plane impact of the south tower makes you fall off, or if you wait the collapse of the south tower makes you fall off.
No, if you were shimmying down, climbers call it "chimneying", you've got it made when you get to the curved convergence of the metal 35 feet above the ground. Because if you look closer the metal has a fist sized gap in it that you can wedge your hands and feet into. Climbers call that "crack climbing". If you put almost any shoe sideways into that crack and then pull your knee up your foot will be locked solid. For hands the same thing, slide your hand in and then make a fist, you'd be surprised how much weight that one fist can hold. Your whole body, actually. That last section is an easy downclimb.
You're forgetting how exhausted someone would be if they chimney'd that far. Plus according to my measurements, you're still 50-60 feet off the ground where the beams converge, so it's still a lethal fall or jump at that point.
2:57 when you describing shimming down those towers, i literally got the CHILLS a VERY BITTER CHILL at imagining having to do that :S :( i keep thinking of that one poor man who was trying to climb down the face of the building but lost his grip :( they caught it on camera :(
There might have been a way down inside the North Tower structure with some clearing of debris. The destroyed core area was several floors high but a team of people might have been able to find a way through this debris. But the problems were massive. The volume of very toxic smoke inside made it virtually impossible to mount an escape. And also, we have no idea where the thermals were rising. The radiant, rising heat in any open areas might have been unbearable. I imagine that any holes in the internal structure would have been conduits for incredible heat that would have killed anyone attempting a descent. One only has to look at the incredible volume of smoke rising off the tower to realize that massive combustion was going on.
There was a guy who almost made it down to one of the upper mechanical floors from the outside. He was filmed by Jack Taliercio. I think he made it down to floor 75 just above the sky lobby and the mechanical floor was on 73. He was trying to break the window from what people can tell from the footage but had he scaled down a little more to the mechanical floor, he could of just dropped on to the perimeter catwalk between the exterior columns and the interior louvres because the exterior columns on mech floors had no windows. He would of then been greeted by doors in the interior louvers but perhaps one was unlocked or he might be able to break through the louvres themselves.
Whether the guy knew this about those floors is unknown or if it was even common knowledge for people who worked in the towers. I only found out about this recently.
Do you know where the footage is from that?
I remember that guy. A lot of editing in the news coverage of that morning. All those jumpers. For a long time I was wondering if I dreamt it up. The absolute worst was the ones that jumped in pairs holding hands. They always got torn apart pretty quickly. There was a guy who said he had survived the tower collapse. Riding down, said “It was like a roller coaster” I remember that SOB saying. I thought it was true until I was watching coverage on the first anniversary and they we’re reporting that guy wasn’t even at ground zero that morning. What really stuck with me during the roll call of those that perished. The ages of those people were overwhelmingly in their 20s and 30s. All those people had families that were destroyed from all this. And all those children without a parent. Or both in an instant.
He fell when the South tower collapse. It's either from the down drift of the air as the south tower fell or the North Tower violent swaying as the south tower's perimeter wall slamms against the facade of the building.
@@jpmnky It's not just you. I remember seeing a lot of jumpers that day, scenes that I haven't seen since. Even looking up the news coverage from that day on RUclips, I'm not seeing what they originally showed. I understand some level of editing, but it still kind of bothers me that the major news networks dumbed down their footage after the fact.
You can still find the raw footage here on YT. And there are a few indie films that cover it.
I get scared just climbing up half way a one story ladder to the roof. Id just accept death before shimmying down or jumping.
Same
South stairway in the south tower was intact from top to bottom after the plain hit. Their were a few who managed to survive using that stairway and firefighter Orio Palmer used that stairway to reach some survivers
there is NO way a hammer could penetrate the laminated glass
In the south tower because United 175 struck on side, one stairwell was passable from top to bottom where only 18 people found it and escaped before it collapsed. In the north tower because of the angle of American 11 all three of the building stairwell became impassible from 92nd floor up which meant that no one from 92nd floor or above in north tower was able to escape.
Thanks captain obvious you just repeated what he said in the first 30 seconds
@@joelbartorlol
@@joelbartor Not only that, it's very common knowledge lol
I would keep a parachute under my desk at all times
I always like to think about this but mostly about the people on the 92nd floor. They initially didn't have to deal with the smoke and fire(most of them) like the people on the upper floors and they were just one floor above the survival zone. Could they have done something? Like maybe making a hole on the floor( if that was possible) or something else? They were So close from surviving.
I saw in that video of the waving woman that there were jumpers below her while she was probably on the 94th floor. Three of them in succession actually. That always stood out to me because they clearly were below the impact zone and the South Tower wasn't even hit yet. I really wonder what the inside must have looked like that led these people to jump. The stairwell was definitely open from where they jumped, but they could've actually been pinned by fire or couldn't even get out of the room they were in.
Even sadder, the walls were just thin sheetrock and could've been busted open, but people thought they were concrete.
@@RuneCodeI've seen that video too. What you have to remember is that there was no clear cut off point below which you were safe. The plane likley damaged both above and below the impact zone. Alot of the jet fuel probably ran down on to the floors immediately below setting them alight. It's likley the area they were in was very badly damaged possibly on fire. Despite being below the impact zone it's clear they couldn't get out. Possibly the fire reached the room they was in and they had nowhere to go. It's disturbing footage to say the least.
I believe they poured concrete on top of steel beams to make each of the floors so I doubt you could get through it
I watched a documentary on the building process of the twin towers recently, each floor was covered with steel sheets making it virtually impossible to dig a hole through
That first picture of the Towers on your vid they look really nice . It would have been a nightmare to shimmy down those slick alumimum pillars withe soleless business shoes or socks awful to think about.
Do you know how hard it would be to break one of those windows? Nearly impossible
The heat was probably ridiculous. The outside metal was probably hundreds of degrees so there's no griping something that hot. RIP to all the people who made that choice
Maybe in Mission Impossible or James Bond you can make it down. I wouldn't think real people could do it though.
Would take too much athleticism and no fear of heights. I think they make glass too thick to break without much help. It would be too much of a time crunch to escape as well as the hazard of the fires, temperatures, and smoke, etc.
I remember the clip of the man in a suit trying to scale down the tower, he slipped and fell. You could hear the music from the plaza in the background. It was tragic! 😫
he actually created a rope and tried to go down a few floors but couldn't break the windows and either he lost his grip or he just gave up and let go
enjoy all your wtc content 👍🏻
even if this brave man got all the way down he would have eventually got to the arch frame bottom where its still atleast 30ft drop which can still be deadly, it widens at this arch part and wouldn't be possible to shimmy any further, however maybe he could have got there and yelled for firefighters and they have ladders etc who knows
Shimmy down the building? Are you insane?
Imagine going from sipping your morning coffee and perusing biweekly sales reports, to hopelessly shimmying down the side of a sheer steel-and-concrete edifice 1000+ feet in the air, surrounded by unfathomable heat, toxic smoke and plummeting bodies, with absolutely no warning and no context for what just happened, all within a matter of minutes. The transience of human life is incomprehensible.
Let’s not be that naive. The Towers had always been a target for terrorism so anyone working in either of the two should have that thought in the back of their mind. However I do I agree with you on the extremity here. Most people would think they would have time to react in a terroristic situation. In this case not so. RIP to all the victims may they get the justice due to them and their families.
@@ChrisBeenRaw Fair point. It certainly should be in the back of everyone's minds NOW, if it wasn't before.
I think you are discounting the intense heat ANYWHERE close to the impact zone.
Shimming down at the level is extremely hard. The person that did it probably had muscle fatigue after doing that.
There is a video on here of a Helicopter Pilot and a First responder circling the tops of the Towers to see if anybody was on the Roof. There were times the whole Roof could be scene on the North Tower and he said he would 100% of tried to pluck a Survivor off the Top had someone had been there. He said he trusted the Pilot to be able to get th hem close enough but ots all Mute because no one was there.
*moot
Nobody could go up there. The door was lock and some were trapped. Half way.. the only way is to try for everyone to have gotten out when the 1st plane hit.
Yup I’ve seen a helicopter did attempt to rescue people from the top of the towers but unfortunately nobody was on the roofs of either tower.
CONGRATS ON 70K BRO!!
Can you do a video on what conditions were like in the North Tower stairwells? We all know that all three were impassible through the impact zone--but to what degree?
Were the stairs themselves still there, but just blocked with debris? Was it a wall of flames? Did the stairs themselves cease to exist--even if the fires were put out and the debris was cleared?
Like, had the towers somehow remained standing, would firefighters have been able to clear the stairwells to do rescues?
There's a survivor story, can't remember the name, where a guy describes looking up into a stairwell in the north tower from directly below the impact zone. He described it as being full of black-charred chunks of sheet-rock, completely blocking the way. Being below the impact zone, he took the stairs down no problem. But based on this, it seems that if someone knew that the core walls were only sheet-rock, you could simply move the chunks of charred sheet-rock out of the way to clear the stairwell. It's likely this is what the top of the stairwells looked like as well for those unfortunate to be above the impact zone. I'm sure with the rest of the debris, the stairwells themselves were extremely hard to locate above and directly within the impact zone.
@@sodiumvapor13you have to remember the smoke. Clearing the stairwell would take time and it was full of smoke making it a impossible task. The stairs at the impact zone would have been unbearably hot too I imagine.
@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 Yes the heat and the smoke is likely why no one found them above the impact zone. And if they did, they realized there was no practical way to clear them.
Love your videos and coverage of this historic event especially with your recent issues with demonetization.
My question is how would the event have been different if the attack occurred at night? Obviously it would have been very difficult to aim for the building but I wonder how the outcome would have changed
Thanks
Maybe they should start putting in solid pegs into these buildings so that people can climb down in case of emergencies, sort of likecwhat they have on radio towers etc
Now only if it was possible for a window cleaner platform lift would've been useful on both towers before either had collapsed.
I remember seeing a video of a person who tried this, or well at least something similar, going down a few floors from the outside, but unfortunately he fell.
how in the heck did that guy shimmy down smooth aluminum ? he had to have fashioned some kind of sticking mechanism to his knees or legs, but what??
I've known about the wtc since i was 5 and i know alot about the wtc and he's still teaching me new stuff.
One foot forward one foot back shimmying, it would have been so gd scary. Says so much about the human will to survive that someone attempted it.
Since in the beginning there are images showing the window washer, I was wondering had it been possible for the trapped people to unlock the door to the roof, it could be possible to transfer some people down through the window washer.
Shimmy down the stairs below the impact zone, carry a fire extinguisher in your briefcase to break open a window from the outside and take the intact stairwell the rest of the way down. Would that be possible? Highly unlikely.
Maybe owning a parachute would be the only realistic way to survive…they aren’t cheap but they aren’t of reach as far as cost…1500 to 3000 dollars…if I worked that high up it might have been worth investing in one…especially since so many people jumped….💁🏽♂️
The problem with scalling down the Towers is the steel was so hot you wouldn't be able to hold on
Unfortunately the way things are now I believe something like this will happen again sooner than we think. 😪
In my head scaling outside and breaking back in sounds good in theory; but I think would be a lot scarier in real life, just to overcome the shakes, let alone the wind and the physical exhaustion, truly amazing anyone even attempted it. Probably all my efforts would have been spent on getting to the roof.
the video isnt 9 minutes and 11 seconds long, W tbh
Do you think it would have been possible, had people been able to access the roof, to use the window washing equipment to get down past the impact zone?
not sure how tall the tridents are but i think if he got to them it might be low enough to be caught with a net?
Wind and heat of the building no way of shimmying down
I might be wrong, but if people made it to the roof of the buildings, could they not have just figured out how to set up the window washing machine and taken it down and sent it back up for people? Idk exactly where they kept it or how they set it up so I’m sure it was very unlikely, but it’s still a safer and interesting thing to think about
The door that lead to the roof was locked. People tried to go to the roof and they unfortunately couldn’t get the door unlocked
I might be wrong but I thought the power was out as well
i've always thought the roof should be open for safety reasons or atleast the key to the roof should be top floor not whereever else it was kept , ridiculous that it wasn'y available incase of disaster
@@Heyitsmaria24 And how do u know that? None of the ppl survived above impact zone who could tell this story.
@@WhatDoYouWant92 You can search up phone calls they made to their loved ones before the building collapsed
I have a question about people in the elevators when the planes hit. Did the elevators that were below the impact zones get their cables cut & then just free fall? What happened to the elevators above the impact zones, & did anyone survive that were in elevators prior to the collapses of the towers? Were people trapped alive in elevators prior to the collapse? Not trying to be morbid, but I just wonder what happens to elevators in a situation like 911
On RUclips you can find a documentary called inside the towers, I think that the name. It covers the story of a group that was traped in an elevator and how they escape.
Not sure about shimmy'ing down. Cause it's the initial dismount from the window to the outside walls, i.e. getting your back and legs locked on the supporting walls at the same time that's scary .....cause yes, your legs and back have to lock-in at the same time, and there is nothing stabilizing you while you try to get that done. If your timing is off on either side of the wall,.... its "good night - & thanks for playing"! Personally, I wouldn't have tried that without some type of supporting rope tied to me while I get my legs and back on the walls. That being said, I dont think I would have jumped either. Perhaps kept searching for a way around the damaged stairway.
The answer is simple. No, it wasn't. I love how the day I almost died is discussed like a macabre history lesson from kids who were mostly in diapers or earlier. Why don't you ask people who were actually there any of these questions instead of speaking in rambling conjectures?
You were in the towers on the day?
@@nedmccann5381 I was inside the lobby on my way to the elevators when the first plane hit.
Honestly in the North Tower it's technically possible, however the likelihood is extremely low
Even if u tried to scale down, the fire and smoke was on all sides fairly quickly after it spread, the only way i see it is if you tied a curtain and scaled down as a rope a few floors at a time and repeated it imo
What if you had a parachute? Like Base jumpers.
Those pictures are amazing. It’s always sad to see them sometimes because they were so unique and unfortunately no one will build anything like it again.
Shimmy down the building? Are you insane??
I had always thought a roof rescue from either tower couldn’t happen. However, I watched a video a couple of weeks ago where they spoke to a rescue helicopter pilot. He said, and it shows on the video his copter took, that the N Tower had a corner with no smoke. He said he could have, or at least attempted, to rescue people from that roof. He seemed surprised that no one was up there.
I remember it being said that the doors were locked and people couldn't get up there.
My things is isn’t impact zone super hot? How you scaling past that?
"guys, this is completely hypothetical"
no, really? 😁
Unrealistic theory.
Heat moves through metal, it would be impossible to shimmy down past the impact zone. The floors were so hot in the upper floors of the trade center the people were forced onto their desks and many jumped because the heat transfer turned the floors into skillets. People several floors above the impact still had their shoes melting to the floor because of the heat transfer through the metal.
One guy did that, he got down to like floor 78
@@repoman2115 google said it’s a myth but you never know.
Thats horrifying 😢
it wasn't heat that forced them out. The were many people clinging to the facade of the building, the waving woman in particular on the 94th floor who appeared at 8:49am and held on to an in tact outer column for the entire ordeal is a great example of the total lack of heat, even at the point of impact.
@@repoman2115 that was the Jack Tallerico footage
Since it's fantasy, I bet an "Alex Honnold" type, and all geared up could have made it down.. I wonder if a parachute would have helped. My guess is you'd have to run and jump from the very top in order to be able to get far enough away and pop it before splat. Hey, it works in the movies! lol
I dont think so,because i assumed all side was too hot for your skin, dont forget it was metal or whatsoever.
Are we thinking of the same guy that had a rope or something? He only made it like one floor
Keep making vids also more political vids thanks
If you could find a working elevator on top and it wasn't broken they could have taken you down to the lobby becauee they were programmed to do that in a fire emergency. I think one woman survived this way but it was pretty lucky.
That wasn't possible because jet fuel went down the elevators, people that were inside of them died burned alive.
Scary stuff man..! I was deployed a bunch in the beginning, your 9-11’ videos are impressive.
Dont forget the strong core where all the stairwells were took the brunt of the plane's impact. I'd bet the "debris" was large sections of the smoldering aircraft twisted and jammed there. Nobody was getting past that.
No, that’s why people jumped.
Please do a vid reviewing the NBA “city jerseys.”
Craziest attempt I saw was a person created a plank that allowed them to step a couple feet outside the building. But then three people from the floor above them all run out on fire and jump without even looking below. One of them slightly bumped the person and they lost their balance and fell
I have seen it on a video on yourube before. Cant remember which one though.
Imagine pulling that off, scaling down 80 floors only to get to that bottom lobby and realizing you can't go any further because of the design of the building and you're still 50-60 feet off the ground. Because yeah, according to my estimates, you're still 50-60 feet off the ground where those beams converge at the lobby. You're not going to survive that fall/jump. Or imagine you get that far down and then the building collapses.
Parachutes...like life preservers for boats
What if you brought a parachute to work at the top of the building? Could you parachute to safety?
I heard after 911 people that worked in the Sears Tower took parachutes with them.
@@dvferyancesmart idea
someone B.A.S.E jumped from the North Tower in 1991
I was wondering if the door to the roof was open, could they try to get below the point of impact using a window cleaning cradle, if that worked they could break the window, climb in and climb down the stairs
What about...When they build these Tall Monster Skyscrapers they incorporate stylish steps to walk down? Whatever you want to call them steps ladders. Would that be possible ? Myself ? I am scared of heights and I would never had worked in that building. Why oh why. Ego ? When I had seen pictures of the inside ... It looked cheaply made.
Your YT videos are like a podcast where you talk about 9/11 you also make 9/11 very interesting half the stuff I didn’t know thanks!
I didn’t realize but the first tower to be hit (The North Tower) stayed up for over a hour after being hit and the majority of everyone in the floors below the impact zone escaped. But sadly the ones above impact zones had little to no possibility of survival due to the buildings core beyond destroyed on there floor which housed all 3 of the stairwells and all the elevators had been blown out :(
I just watched the most wild story about the woman that was in the South Tower on the 101 floor and she didn't listen to the security or her boss when they told them just to stay where they were after they are the first explosion. If she hadn't listened she would not have made it but no one else seemed to have
Dude, 99% of ppl are not in good enough physical shape to pull any of these things off. Not to mention the heat at temps melting steel
Rhe minimum heat required to melt steel is oxygen concentrated with acetylene or thermite, and a few other things. Jet fuel and basic office supplies can't burn at even half the temperature required to melt steel
@@Bennysolit wasn't melted, it buckled.
@@standup2982 lmao. For 1 if a few floors where the plane hit buckled and the bottom 80 floors that were undamaged and spent 30 years holding up the above floor stayed standing then yea their story of lies would make sense. 2, molten steel at 911 is one of oldest and original red flags of the ordeal. Videos and pictures of molten steel were easy to find throughout Google and youtube 15-20 years ago but China owns them now and 90% of everything has been deleted and censored. Also, before any of the steel could be examined it was quickly loaded onto barges and sent to China to be recycled. How convenient
My hands started to sweat just from listening to you ...
You CANT Shimmy down. The concept is totally silly ! It’s polished aluminum siding. You would slip 408 times. Plus the wind .... the ONLY thing that woulda saved anyone above the impact was a parachute 🪂 and knowing how to skydive 🪂
He’d have dress shoes on, too..and they’re slippery.. i’d rather go bare foot..crazy
the only way I could see you could realistically surviving that situation is to break through the floors by punching a hole through them. if you had some power tools or hammer with hard nails. Not sure if the towers had some up there for whatever reason. Otherwise i wonder if you could rope climb yourself down from the elevator then hope you can find an open slot or pry one open once you've reached the elevator itself if it doesn't move OR if you see people with in the small spacing in between the doors maybe you could yell for someone to let you in
Yea it’s crazy I would have stripped down barefoot and shirtless in order to get as much grip. I’m thinking of having dress shoes with no grip
More than 2.500 Civilians Perished.
Imagine some scales the whole way down from like the 100th floor or so, just like you described. It takes them a good hour to do it. They're down to like the 10th floor, then they feel the building start shaking violently, it breaks them loose and they hit the ground, just to look up and see the whole building coming down on top of them.
And they just say to themselves "welp, at least i tried"
It’s crazy how all these years later we still speculate this tragedy, I’ve been on the hunt for the infamous LOL SUPERMAN video, I did happen to find a rare video of people jumping…one I haven’t seen in HD. Crazy, god rest all of their souls!
Nobody jumped
I would think arms and legs would ger tired