# 9/11- did any of the people hanging out the windows of the WTC survive?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 11, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-did-any-of-the-people-hanging-out-the-windows-of-the-wtc-survive/765661 "2016-09-11T15:59:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![snopes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@snopes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snopes)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-did-any-of-the-people-hanging-out-the-windows-of-the-wtc-survive/765661/21 "2016-09-19T04:14:21Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> I knew the real purpose of the 1993 bombing several years before it was released to the press (an acquaintance who worked for the elevator company told me) and I had always suspected that the terrorists intended to do more than turn them into quarter-mile-high smokestacks.

Do you think they were trying to get the WTC to topple right onto other buildings? I sometimes wonder how much higher the death toll would have been if the towers hadn’t collapsed in on themselves but had instead fallen over like trees.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-did-any-of-the-people-hanging-out-the-windows-of-the-wtc-survive/765661/22 "2016-09-19T07:16:32Z")

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> [@Barrett\_Bonden](#):
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> Esquire published [this](http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/) recently, on the identity of the Falling Man.

Thank you for linking that; it was excellent.

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**Author:** ![Grim\_Render](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Grim\_Render](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Render)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-did-any-of-the-people-hanging-out-the-windows-of-the-wtc-survive/765661/23 "2016-09-19T08:40:44Z")

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> [@snopes](#):
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> Do you think they were trying to get the WTC to topple right onto other buildings? I sometimes wonder how much higher the death toll would have been if the towers hadn’t collapsed in on themselves but had instead fallen over like trees.

I doubt that would be physically possible. I cant imagine the tower structure could support its weight at an angle.

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**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2016, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-did-any-of-the-people-hanging-out-the-windows-of-the-wtc-survive/765661/24 "2016-09-19T23:20:49Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> Thank you for linking that; it was excellent.

Yeah, it ended up being much bigger than I thought it would be.

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