Could the people who perished in the WTC collapse on 9/11 have been saved if they had had parachutes?

This is a “what if” question, and those [generally] do not have a definitive answer. It’s possible some people might have been saved with parachutes, but it’s also possible that parachutes would not have done anything because of all the debris flying everwhere.

it is possible perhaps. the article below mentions what i would consider the biggest risk “Normally, when you jump alongside a building regular parachutes get dragged to the wall, leading to collision. We had to come up with one that was actually pushed away during descent.” as i am not an engineer i dont know the forces being put on a person descending, like gravity, wind, etc. the worst part is knowing that the people who jumped must have done so ONLY because they had no choice with the conditions on their floor etc. no one would ever choose that way if there was even a glimmer of hope or a thought they would escape.

when people parachute normally there is lots of open space of course and they pull the shute WELL above ground. in such a congested area they could (depending on winds etc) have hit other buildings or landed on another structure and been trapped. i also dont know if there is enough time to open a parachute from that height.

of course its tragic the entire 9–11 event and no one EVER imagined it would actually happen (except for a few who no one paid attention to). its one of the “what if” scenarios. like fires in a regular building. shouldnt every house have oxygen masks and fire fighting equipment just in case? but no one does. they are just things that are not supposed to happen. the world is not set up to prevent ALL tragedies, and even the ones that should be easier to handle, like the New Orleans flooding, are handled extremely poorly without sufficient excuses.

Emergency skyscraper parachutes originally designed and tested by Czech firm
[12–09-2006] By Jan Velinger Listen 16kb/s ~ 32kb/s On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, some attention in the Czech Republic has focused on special emergency parachutes originally developed by a Czech firm that could save lives under horrifying and hopeless conditions like those witnessed on September 11th at the World Trade Center.

Producing such a parachute was by no means an ordinary project: our design had to go further than others available, like one paraglide design. Normally, when you jump alongside a building regular parachutes get dragged to the wall, leading to collision. We had to come up with one that was actually pushed away during descent.”
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/83104

NYC balks at skyscraper escape pods
Posted Feb 24th 2006 8:30AM by Evan Blass
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Transportation

It’s been almost four-and-a-half years since the tragedy of September 11th, and yet the city whose two greatest structures were toppled has done very little to address safety in existing skyscrapers, and has even denied building permits to an Israeli company looking to test their innovative escape pod system in Manhattan. Escape Rescue Systems, spurred by the ineffective building evacuation methods as demonstrated on 9/11, invented an apparatus wherein a roof-mounted crane lowers five collapsed pods down one face of the structure to await the arrival of emergency personnel
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/24/nyc-balks-at-skyscraper-escape-pods/

There are mentions that the doors to the roof were locked “for security reasons”, [ LOCKED!! ] and various photos here and there of the roof showing the TV tower guy wires over the entire roof preventing helicopter landings (should any pilots brave the smoke) and any evacuation except by sling, etc.

http://www.mjbarkl.com/locked.htm

There was absolutely nothing wrong with the conceptual design of the towers,” said William LeMessurier, the structural engineer for New York’s 59-story Citicorp Center. “No one could anticipate the extraordinary impact, fuel load, and resulting fire.”

Some people forcefully build skyscrapers, others use force to destroy them. In between are ordinary people who, responsive to the builders’ and owners’ force of will, work in them, despite the fact that the buildings are neither secure nor satisfying. Looked at in this perspective, the sad thirty-year life of the World Trade towers seems a human folly of Biblical proportions.
http://www.spectacle.org/yearzero/huge.html

These few actions saved SEVEN HUNDRED LIVES! And yet such simple work is still carried out by too few , and the concept of developing technology for fast, reliable escape/evacuation from planes and skyscrapers, though fairly simple, in our tech-genius world, has been ignored entirely. At nineleven, a few home handyman ideas received publicity, and sneers.

One “left-handed blessing” of this cry for deliverance from such endangerment has resulted in much-improved Preparedness in other areas, thanks to the Department of Homeland Security’s invention, and the efforts of public and private groups and individuals, but much of these wonderful new ideas would not have saved the occupants of WTC in a similar scenario.
http://www.ellefagan.com/patriotsite/wtcreconstruction.html

HERE IS SOMEONE WHO ASSUMED THEY ALL HAD PARACHUTES

Now safe and together, we turned to face the carnage in front of us. As we watched, debris started falling off the building and the fire worsened. I remember a woman?s voice behind me yell; ?look someone has jumped?? And I looked and said it was only debris? A moment later I saw the unmistakable silhouette of a man who had jumped from the top of the building. I keep thinking: any second and the parachute goes off. This is a BASE jumper A second later, a woman jumped feet first… I could see her skirt blowing up over her and her hands trying to get her to fly. I was sure she had a parachute as well? A moment later, I turned around and looked at no one in particular, and said; ?This is not live entertainment folks? I can?t stand here and watch people commit suicide. Let?s get out of here!? And started to walk away?

I?m really sorry to say, I heard just yesterday, the man in the wheel chair has perished. And although I ask myself if in fact maybe I could have carried him, in retrospect, I didn?t know how serious the situation was. They kill not only defenseless people, but helpless ones as well
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread38715/pg1

NO!! Unles you jumped, as some did, parachutes would be no help. By the way, the building didn’t explode, they imploded. There was another build about 3 blocks away that went down the same as the twin Towers but no one talks about that. No plane hit it either. You are dealing with a government coverup mainly the tons of Gold loaded out of those buildings early the morning of 9/11. Destroying the buildings was to cover that theft.

And please don’t give me a link to a theorist video…real facts.

@Charlie – can you back that statement up with some real facts? Actually don’t. Go talk about it in your conspiracy forums with your fellow quacks.

@Charlie, you are mixing reality with Die Hard 3. Seriously. Remember that one? With Jeremy Irons? And was the Oklahoma City bombing a cover-up of an attack by the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man?

It has been proven that the Oklahoma bombing was NOT done by a van full of explosives. The only way you can actuall blow a steel girder out is to connect an explosive devise directly to it. An outside explosive will wharp it but not actually tear it apart as the front gerders of the building was. Check it out at AOL’s Research and Learn section. Type in Oklahoma Bombing and hit search. Alot of good stuff there.

@Charlie – so you’re saying Oklahoma “was” a cover up too? Please tell me what really happened then, I would love to hear it. You know something, I read a book once that would be right up your alley…“Behold a Pale Horse”

Is evolution a cover-up also? How about the moon landing? Hanging CHADs in Miami-Dade county in 2000….oh wait….

I read the book! Thanks! I guess it all depends on what you all want to beleive. There was alot of incriminateing papers in that building for alot of High-up people but to destroy those papers wouldn’t be easy so someone came up with the idea to blow it and the CIA took over. McVey was the fall guy. Again, to do it they had to plant explosives to the girdders and in this case, so I have heard, was plastic explosives because they create fire when it goes off.
Ever do any research of what is between here and the moon and you will find that nothing WE have here can get you there particularily the explosive power combined with the weight of the craft and half of California would get blown away or Florida whichever. Look at the photoes!! No back ground, no stars, not much of anything but a bunch of people in monkey suits playing in the desart. Don’t beleive everything you hear. Space research is a Billion $$$ business that gives people something to do.
Evolution I can say happens. It may take years but WE change day by day, year by year and today with genetic altereing, it may get interesting with what will come up.

This is fun.

@brownlemur. I was just going to ask you if you wanted to touch this one. lol

Yep, a cover up. There was papers from Hillary Clintons scam called “The Worlds Childrens Fund” in that Oklahoma building. This “fund” did nothing for Children! It was a slush Fund for the “Big Boys” running this government. It included money laundrying, drug money, stolen money,etc. Vince Foster was killed, along with a bunch of others over this “FUND”. It got too hot so the papers had to be destroyed. The way was to blow the building werw these papers where kept useing, I beleive, tack on plastic explosives INSIDE the building. More at www.worldreports.org

I got shot with a ballistic probe by an Area 51 alien whose half-vampire/half-sasquatch brother was watching from the grassy knoll. After that, I took a trip to Atlantis while riding on the Loch Ness Monster’s back. The whole time he wouldn’t shut up about how he created the whole 9/11 conspiracy (under the supervision of Fat Elvis, of course). Unfortunately, it took a really long time for me to get home from Atlantis because it turns out the Earth is really flat.

Are we done here?

ditto

I t is too bad the world is full of fools.

Ditto.

I got out a copy of the Constitution Of the United States a few years back. No matter what, it is still the LAW of this LAND. WHY? It is the Law Of the people, BY the people, and FOR the People. Our government “leaders” are so currupted that the average Joe out here hasn.t a chance of ever seeing any truth when it comes to Freedom. BUT, if you want to stand up and want to keep your Freedom, Read that Constitution. It is the Bible for a FREE man.