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- Kabrabnzada, on 05/19/2009, -0/+51I'm pretty sure I saw a parachute in there.
- mrpunman, on 05/20/2009, -1/+36I don't think people realize the gravity of the situation here
- joshthegreat200, on 05/20/2009, -1/+29The parachute opened in the last few moments it says.. So he didnt survive a fall without a parachute.
No parachute = no parachute.
Also, he landed on snow. - Diamndzngunz, on 05/20/2009, -0/+26This is what has always made me laugh. "Landing was like being "hit by a speeding truck", he said." People like this are funny, it's like getting hit with baseball bats it's like getting stabbed with a knife... Unless it has not happened to them how the hell do they know? Its more like hitting a mountain covered in snow at 100mph.... Think about it
- maxennator, on 05/20/2009, -1/+24video didn't play for me. youtube link (I'm guessing it's the same video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd6z41Dsing - JimSartor, on 05/18/2009, -1/+24dugg for actually showing the landing.
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -2/+21video doesn't load...
- p341250n, on 05/18/2009, -9/+26this happened to Peggy Hill once. Ho Yeah!
- one504, on 05/19/2009, -1/+15Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three.
- Sejes89, on 05/20/2009, -0/+12He landed in a field of pillows.
- mrpunman, on 05/20/2009, -0/+10..or maybe he's just a down-to-earth guy
- jamwil87, on 05/20/2009, -0/+10Way to stay true to your username.
- LloydDobbler, on 05/20/2009, -0/+10Also buried for its sensationalist title. James deployed his parachute, but late.
I also find it interesting how media *loves* to quote the distance fallen in skydiving accidents, as if it makes it all the more horrible. In reality, if I jumped from 13,000 feet and had the same thing happen, the result would be the same as if I had jumped from 6,000 feet or 1,000 feet.
As a friend of mine put it, "I never see that in car accident reports: 'Local car accident: Man from out of town drives 45 miles to his death.'" - danwallace, on 05/20/2009, -2/+12Buried for misleading title. The chute is what saved his life. Also the video won't work.
- andypop481, on 05/20/2009, -0/+9Its both, actually.
- stoanhart, on 05/20/2009, -0/+9Also, he was flying a wing-suit, which is waaaay slower than free fall.
- rnawky, on 05/20/2009, -0/+8Falling 6000 feet is pretty much the same as falling 100 feet. Once you reach terminal velocity the height doesn't really matter.
- woofers07, on 05/20/2009, -0/+7Not to down play this at all, but he was wearing a flight suit so he was exactly falling at terminal velocity, his shoot did open just not fully, and he landed on a steep snow covered slope which definitely helped absorb his landing. Don't get me wrong it's still pretty miraculous, but not near as bad as the title makes it seem.
- kitsua, on 05/20/2009, -0/+7Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.
Five is right out. - ClarkLab, on 05/20/2009, -0/+6so wait, no one is going to mention the fact that it wasn't even a malfunction? this dude just didn't pull the cord in time? smoooooth.
- oda1, on 05/20/2009, -2/+8HO YEAH!
- Yankees368, on 05/20/2009, -2/+7why is that comment getting dug down? HO YEAH!
- razorc03, on 05/20/2009, -0/+5The diver said he was filming. I want to see HIS recording
- malonesm, on 05/20/2009, -0/+5He's not the luckiest man in the world... the last one who did this is... he landed in a mulberry bush 100 feet from concrete in all directions... and walked away from it unharmed. See digg...uh a year ago.
- YourMomsAnAnon, on 05/20/2009, -1/+5Yes. You'll probably die.
Post pics. - dc383, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4stop bringing me down.....
- johan13, on 05/20/2009, -1/+4Buried for still not realizing that the altitude doesn't matter once you reach terminal velocity.
- ZeroCubed, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3You have obviously never jumped off a roof and into a "large" pile of snow. It is in no way any more pleasant.
But if you ever do get around to it - remember your pain. Then imagine that jump to be 6,000 feet instead of like, 15. - OptykUnreal, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3I met a guy in Kalamazoo Michigan, who while in the military someone had tied his chute in a knot and sewed his emergency chute shut. (This was back in the day when the jumpers didn't pack their own chutes) Of course he only fell from a lousy 2000 feet,
it didn't even knock him out, it just bent both legs backwards and he was propped up by his own legs. That was 40 years ago. He has occasional short term memory loss and some back pain. The guy left the military and become a mail man... - diggbury, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3dugg for badassery also
- inactive, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3Yeah me too. Moreover it's on Ice with parachute opened.
- studdenfadden, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3Ok, http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Alive_after_two_mile_fal ...
- pazimzadeh, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3Hey it's possible...didn't that happen to Chev Chelios too?
- ZeroCubed, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3Alright I'll shut up. That's badass.
- Q8ball, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3did it hurt??......when you fell from heaven
=x - Hellahulla, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3In that article one of the pictures is taken by the guy who had the accident in this article.
Is the skydiving community in the UK that small, or is that group really unlucky? - rnawky, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3Oh, well I'm not a scientist, or whoever figures that ***** out, but you get the point.
- dcramps, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3True, but you won't be anywhere close to terminal at 100 feet ;) I think it is around 1,200 or so
- stoanhart, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3You'd be amazed how much slower he still is, though. Watch his body get jerked up when it opens; that can be the difference between life and death.
- HAL90000, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2So the feat in the last James Bond movie is possible after all?
Minus the lack of broken bones of course... - WhoDoneIt, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Seeing how the title says "Without Parachute"...
- weedancer, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2There's a lady who goes to my church, *yes a digger who goes to church" well anyways she had the same thing happen though but she was also pregnant, she didn't know, and she had the baby with a broken pelvis but both of them are doing fine now :D oh and she was on Montel! :D
- Hellahulla, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Well it is unlikely he'd have survived a drop like that without some effect from the parachute, but it did open very late and he is lucky ... the article title is misleading though.
- technetix, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Should have been "Wing-suit jumper survives after parachute opens late". Still pretty crazy.
- MrFisty, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2I want to see him jump a gorge on a skateboard.
- modifiedbears, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2I believe he is accepting bids.
- 64bitllama, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Bad adaptation of a bad joke.
- kitsua, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2He's trying to claw back his reputation.
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2"As he plunged at 100mph, he was meant to open his parachute following a signal from the other man.
But because of a mix-up, he pulled the cord with only a few seconds to spare. "
What kind of mix up leads to one ignoring the fact that your plummeting towards the ground? With 200 dives, I would have thought he'd have the wherewithal to think "Hey, the grounds kinda close"
- WhoDoneIt, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Quoted from the Wikipedia entry you linked too, which, if you read, notes that many things most likely lead to him slowing his decent rate. Again, like this story above, wasn't surviving a free fall without ANY ***** thing to slow them down.
"Moreno's survival has been attributed to the 16-foot (4.9 m) scaffolding platform that he clung to as he fell; its large surface area likely reduced his terminal velocity, and there is the possibility that he was further slowed by crosswinds and by the platform striking the side of the building on the way down. The manner of his landing also helped; the scaffolding frame hit a wall and landed on a pile of twisted cables that provided a better cushion for landing than plain concrete, and based on his injuries (he broke both legs and his right arm) it appears his extremities absorbed the brunt of the impact.[4]" -
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