Hail_Ants:
In the early eighties my brother skydived (skydove?) a lot, and he said that the term ‘bounce’ was used as a general, humorous/sobering euphemism for anyone dying from a chute malfunction (regardless of what kind of surface they hit).
In regards to 9/11 jumpers, I can say that there definitely are a few videos out there of them hitting the concrete pavement near the base of the towers, and yes I’ve seen them, and yes they pretty much became “pink mist” due to their speed & hardness of the ground. Decorum dictates not providing a link but they’re not too difficult to find. Also, in the very first documentary about the attack which aired about a month after and was simply called “9/11” (it was done by the two French filmmakers who were documenting a NYC firehouse and caught the first plane hitting the towers) you can hear jumpers hitting the pavement while they’re shooting in the lobby of one of the towers. The sound was incredibly loud, like a dumpster being dropped. So loud that the two filmmakers didn’t know what it was but the firemen, obviously jumpers being a familiar occurrence to them, did.
Are you talking about that really blurry one on YouTube or are there other videos of them that are higher quality? I’d be curious to see them - if I could stomach it.