the World Trade Center, trapping hundreds in the upper floors of both buildings and setting the impacted floors ablaze. As a direct consequence, more than 200 people plummeted to their deaths from the burning skyscrapers, primarily from the North Tower with only 3 spotted from the South. Most of these people―especially those in the North Tower―deliberately made the decision to kill themselves by jumping as a quicker alternative to burning alive or dying from smoke inhalation; however, a small percentage of these deaths were not jumpers but people who accidentally fell. Many of these victims were inadvertently captured on both television and amateur footage, even though television networks reporting on the tragedy attempted to avoid showing people falling to avoid further traumatizing viewers. See also The Bridge (2006), documentary film about jumpers on the Golden Gate Bridge The Falling Man, iconic photograph of one of the hundreds of casualties of the September 11 attack victims who fell or jumped from the burning World Trade Center Lover's Leap, nickname for many scenic heights with the risk of a fatal fall and the possibility of a deliberate jump Suicide barrier, access-control fence erected at certain high places to deter jumpers Suicide bridge, particular bridges favored by jumpers References Suicides by jumping Suicide methods