Since your NSURLConnection is asynchronous, the end of your -startDownloading method is reached immediately, and the thread exits.
I think your problem might be that the NSURLConnection has been deallocated as soon as you exit the startDownloading: message (or more accurately when your autorelease pool is drained).
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