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Neither chute opened...

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:54 am
by Gekko71
A near-miss story for you. A man in the UK has survived a 3 kilometer freefall with only a dislocated neck and bruising to show for it.

He even has footage of the incident...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/856 ... -onto-roof

...time to stop jumping out of perfectly good airplanes! :)

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:28 am
by Warlock
All I can say is ouch

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:09 am
by Krom
Jumping out of perfectly good airplanes is ones own discretion and all, but don't come complaining if something goes wrong once after you have done it 661 times. :P

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:04 am
by AlphaDoG
Lucky bastid!

Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:02 pm
by Topher
Good thing it was measured in sissy kilometers and not hard, bone crunching miles.