INCREDIBLE! Man falls 4000m and survives!

[mancombseepgood]

And he gets to film the whole thing...
Now if he enters that into the guiness book, i think he may have a record that won't fall in a hurry!
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,9294,2-10-1462_2047950,00.html

Wellington - A British skydiver who plunged 4 000m to the ground after his parachute failed to open captured his terrifying descent on film while believing he was plunging to his death.

Michael Holmes owes his miraculous survival to the fact that he fell into a blackberry bush which cushioned the fall, leaving him only with a broken ankle and punctured lung.

Incredible!

 

[NaZKuL]

now there's a record i wont want to break in a hurry!!
punctured lung! eina!!!

 

[RompelStompel]

WWII : USAAF (USAF in WWII) B17 gunner and a RAF Lancaster gunner survived falls from about 6000m.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-fall

 

[mancombseepgood]

They don't make em like they used to!

 

[RompelStompel]

IIRC the German troops who captured the Yank didn't believe him , until they found the wreckage of his B17

PS - The reason for my editing my first post should read : '....... and corrected my grammar'

Seems I have had too much coffee .......

 

[mancombseepgood]

Ha ha - coffee before the weekend starts!
Can you imagine trying to tell someone that you actually fell 6 km and survived.
Think about how many people fall one or two storeys and don't make it!

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

I read a few INSANE things in the guiness book of records a while ago. In WW2, a guy ejected out of a plane, no parachute or anything, he fell more than 20 000 feet to the ground and actually survived.

I read another insane one, same thing as above, i guy fell more than 20 000 feet from a plane, and landed ASTRIDE A HORSE!! I can't remember if either of them survived, but that's still an amazing stat.

 

[zeb]

Can't wait for US newspapers to pick this up
"Hooray for Bush"
"Bush the hero"
"Bush saves man's life"

 

[Lord Anubis]

On Discovery Channel a few months ago there was a story about a guy who fell also like 4000 m into a heap of snow and survived. ..what surprises me more than the fact that in these types of situations the guys usually only have a few scratches or maybe a busted ankle.. but never like any veins popping in their nut*. Also I thought that it wasn't the fall that kills you but that you get a heart attack..or is it that sudden stop (geforces in your head compact your brain inside your skull??

 

[Skeptik]

Well it doesn't matter whether it was 2000 or 4000m because you would hit the ground at the same speed. This story about hitting a blackberry bush is a bit odd. There's got to be more to it than meets the eye.

he thought he would die when both his parachutes failed.

So there were two parachutes slowing his fall.

"The camera was on his helmet but facing the opposite way so we can't really see a lot,"

I reckon he must have hit thick bush on a slope.

 

[mancombseepgood]

How ironic is it that tonight on the news someone died after falling off a wardrobe...

 

[mancombseepgood]

Lol

Well it doesn't matter whether it was 2000 or 4000m because you would hit the ground at the same speed. This story about hitting a blackberry bush is a bit odd. There's got to be more to it than meets the eye.


So there were two parachutes slowing his fall.



I reckon he must have hit thick bush on a slope.

There's alot to it hence he survived, but that makes it all the more incredible...
it was dense scrub... that can be pretty good at cushioning your landing...
Three friends and I belonged to a club called the bushjumping club (that's bush as in rush)... we would all wear our cheapest t-shirts and jeans, find a nice springy bit of dense bush and dive in running... I have a few scars and there were some close ones - especially where branches were broken (we inspected the bushes before jumping!), but it was pretty harmless fun

 

[Syndyre]

So there were two parachutes slowing his fall.

Not if they didn't open at all.

 

[nGAGEd55]

Now if he enters that into the guiness book, i think he may have a record that won't fall in a hurry!

unfortunately Vesna Vulović already holds the record for falling over 10km!

 

[mancombseepgood]

NOOOOIIIIITT!

 

[RompelStompel]

unfortunately Vesna Vulović already holds the record for falling over 10km!

No doubt as to the fact that she fell 10000m and survived but ..........

She was in part the aircraft when it struck the ground - this could have contributed towards her survival.

The Yank , Brit and Russian struck the ground with their bodies and survived.

Happy Holidays

 

[Paul_S]

Terminal velocity ~200km/h is reached well within the first 1000m of freefall (~12 seconds) so it really doesn't matter if you fall from space - you aren't going to hit the ground any faster.

You're already doing 50% of terminal velocity ~100km/h within 3 seconds after jumping which is plenty fast to go "splat".

My uncle survived a night time, military drop with a candled chute in the Rhodesian war - he hit a tree.