The photo's caption read, "A person falls headfirst after jumping from the north tower of the World Trade Center. The photograph initially appeared in newspapers around the world, including on page seven of The New York Times on September 12, 2001. The photograph gives the impression that the man is falling straight down however, a series of photographs taken of his fall shows him to be tumbling through the air. He took between ten and twelve different sequences of images of people jumping from the tower, before having to leave the site due to the South Tower's collapse. He took eight photographs in sequence, after realizing that a series of loud cracking sounds was not that of falling concrete, but rather people hitting the ground. He took the falling man image while at the corner of West and Vesey Street from a low angle. Alerted by his editor to the attacks, Drew took the subway to the Chambers Street subway station, near the World Trade Center site. The morning of September 11, Richard Drew was on assignment for the Associated Press, photographing a maternity fashion show in Bryant Park. The New York City medical examiner's office said it does not classify the people who fell to their deaths on September 11 as " jumpers," explaining that a 'jumper' is defined as someone who "goes to the office in the morning knowing that they will commit suicide," adding that the victims who fell from the towers did not want to die but "were forced out by the smoke and flames or blown out." Officials could not recover or identify the bodies of those forced out of the buildings prior to the collapse of the towers. Almost all of these individuals came from the North Tower. Of the 2,606 victims killed inside the World Trade Center and on the ground in New York City during the September 11 attacks, some have estimated that at least 200 people fell or jumped to their deaths, while other estimates put the number around 100. See also: Casualties of the September 11 attacks
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