who was the falling man 911

The Falling Man is a famous photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew on September 11, 2001. It shows an unidentified man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks. The man's identity remains officially unknown, though he is believed to have been a worker at the Windows on the World restaurant at the top of the North Tower. There are strong suggestions that he might have been Jonathan Briley, a 43-year-old sound engineer who worked there, based on family and colleague identifications and the man's clothing visible in the photo. The photograph captures a tragic moment of a person who was either forced out by the smoke and flames or jumped to escape (not classified as a suicide by the medical examiner's office).