Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Man falls to his death as parachutes fail . . . but survives impact!

This is the the amazing video from the helmet camera of British skydiver Michael Holmes.

He plummets 12,000ft to earth after both his parachutes fail ... and hits the ground at 80mph.

Michael's friend, who jumped from the same plane, also filmed the whole event.

See what happened here:


1 comment:

christianhauck said...

that's only anecdotal, not according to proper scientific standards. See "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials", BMJ. 2003 December 20; 327(7429): 1459–1461, at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=300808