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Kymux
13-02-2007, 09:00 PM
VIDEO: Link (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/mos/skydiver.html?in_article_id=435694&in_page_id=1990&in_a_source)

Guys chute half opens and reserve fails and he survives an incredible fall from a plane...

pretty insane and he only received a broken ankle, apparently he says he is gonna do a jump again lol

crazy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/content/images/2007/02/13/holmes_skydiving_body_470x200.jpg

cocaine
13-02-2007, 09:02 PM
I saw this two days ago.

They also showed the video

It looked like he hit the ground pretty slowly? :s

but it was 100MPH

Rou
13-02-2007, 09:02 PM
i watched this on the news lastnight , 15thousand feet and only a broke ankle and a collapsed lung how lucky can you get.

Browney
13-02-2007, 09:02 PM
He actually turns at one point and says bye.

Kymux
13-02-2007, 09:05 PM
lol his friend is like " are you ok? " and he goes " no... "

Browney
13-02-2007, 09:07 PM
I know. ^_^

Kymux
13-02-2007, 09:09 PM
hes got to have like no fears anymore... my dad skydives and stuff and he was cringing the whole way through watching... i think it may have put him off a bit

cocaine
13-02-2007, 09:23 PM
Video won't play.

Kymux
13-02-2007, 09:31 PM
played for me

Kotu
13-02-2007, 09:39 PM
He was very lucky.

Kymux
13-02-2007, 09:43 PM
yeah but im not sure if his chute half opening counts as freefalling, coz it must slow him down a bit...

-Soph-
14-02-2007, 03:35 AM
wow.. how lucky can you get?

Kymux
15-02-2007, 11:47 PM
bout as lucky as you can get lol

A4AOwen
15-02-2007, 11:49 PM
He is very lucky, only a broken ankle.

scubadiva
16-02-2007, 12:21 AM
Just imagine how it must of felt

I think maybe adrenaline helped him as well...

beth
16-02-2007, 11:25 AM
woahh. i would never jump again if that happened to me, ahar. but yeah, well played [:

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