View Full Version : Skydiver falls 12,000 feet and survives
Sasaki Kojiro
02-13-2007, 07:18
After both his parachutes failed.
Video from his headcam is pretty amazing (IE only) (http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/mos/skydiver.html?in_article_id=435694&in_page_id=1990&in_a_source=)
Gregoshi
02-13-2007, 07:37
That's pretty amazing. Wonder if he read the Unplanned freefall? No worries (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=77649) thread.
Hmm, seems like his parachute opened partly and slowed him at least a bit.
Video works fine in Opera btw.
Dutch_guy
02-13-2007, 13:34
Wow, lucky man, that...
Lucky place to land in though, reckon he wouldn't have stood a chance had he crashed about 50 meters to his left, in the sea...
PS: video works firefox too you know...
:balloon2:
Lorenzo_H
02-13-2007, 18:01
He actually said he hoped he would crash in the sea, though he realised it would have killed him anyway. The real danger would probably have been the car park about 30 meters away from where he landed (the helicopter takes off from there later in the clip).
Vladimir
02-13-2007, 20:19
Hmm. Are you ok, are you in pain? What kinds of questions are those?
Looks like he got his lines crossed for a partial deployment.
I saw it in the tv.
Amazing.
Zalmoxis
02-15-2007, 05:03
That was awesome.
SwordsMaster
02-15-2007, 12:26
Wow. Impressive.
"are you okay?"
"no!"-------> understatement of the year right there :laugh4:
a very lucky guy
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