Yellow Life Jackets Everywhere-- Real or Planted Plane Debris?

FDNY EMT Briam Smith: "So we went up to the 10-10 house...I remember there was life jackets everywhere, the yellow in-flight life jackets, and that the contrast of the yellow against all the gray, you know. It stood out."


Does this make any sense? These life jackets are normally carried under the seats on the plane. Why would there be multiple life jackets scattered around together, in the absence of other major plane debris-- and in the absence of multiple airplane seat cushions?

You could postulate that the jackets were lighter than many other items on the plane, and that they were ejected from the crash in the building and floated down. But why so many in one area, without other a large amount of other clear airplane debris? It seems improbable.

The jackets were on Liberty Street (going west from 10-10 house), according to Smith, and the picture above refers to Liberty Plaza-- this area would be consistent with life-jackets being blown out the South side of WTC1 by the crash of AA11. The picture of course shows an AA vest. If these are planted plane debris, it's pretty clever-- in the sense of the location, that they used an AA vest and that these were items that one would not immediately expect to be planted.

So it could be these vests as described by Smith were all planted by a very clever covert plane crash faking crew, or that just the vest on Liberty Plaza was planted and Smith was lying or confused. Or they could have been there from an AA plane hitting the tower.

It's quite hard to know.

One interesting bit is from Smith's testimony-- which is extremely long and I have not read all of it-- but he says how he saw the building, but wasn't sure what happened, thought maybe a bomb went off in it, because he didn't see any obvious plane debris such as a "big wing" stuck in the tower (page 19).

At this point, the interviewer says "Q . You don't have to follow that. Just keep going."

And THEN, Smith goes into the story about the life jackets. So initially, Smith was expressing doubt about the plane story, then the interviewer makes him switch gears, then immediately Smith brings up the life jacket story. Almost as if the interviewer was keeping Smith "on script".

So were there life jackets everywhere on the street? I would be more convinced if another witness corroborated that-- or if there were good photos of the life vests on the ground.