A few stories about real lucky people who were on the verge of death, but still survived in an almost hopeless situation during a fall from an extreme height.
Source 1The stuntman who jumped from a height of 7,600 meters without a parachute and landed safely on a stretched net
More recently, in July, extreme and skydiver Luke Aikins (Luke Aikins) successfully jumped from an airplane without a parachute - of his own free will. (He is one of two people on this list whose parachute jump was not an accident.)
The daredevil jumped from a height that is almost twice the height of a normal jump (7600 meters - skydivers who make a long jump usually jump from a height of about 4000 meters) and landed on a stretched grid almost 1/3 in size football field. To see how it does with nerves of steel (and other parts of the body), watch this video:
Source 2The Skydiver Who Filmed an Accident He Had While Jumping
In 2006, the harrowing footage of skydiver Michael Holmes, who survived a seemingly hopeless situation by crash-landing in a bramble bush, was captured by a helmet-mounted video camera his instructor had put on him before jumping from a plane from a height of 4300 meters.
Holmes, 24, did not panic when he got entangled in his parachute at an altitude of about 1.2 kilometers. Based on his rich experience and training, he, not paying attention to his uncontrolled rotation - in total during the flight he made 84 turns - tried to open the reserve parachute. He succeeded, but too late to really help in this situation. The only thing that saved his life was landing in a blackberry bush.
He escaped with a collapsed lung and a broken ankle and later returned to jumping with the words: "This is what I do. This is what I love."
Source 3The Skydaver who found out she was 2 weeks pregnant after falling from a height
Shayna Richardson started skydiving when she was 21 years old. In 2005, a Joplin, Missouri resident was making her 10th jump in Siloam Springs, Arkansas with a brand new parachute when something went wrong.
She was making a solo jump at an altitude of about 900 meters when the main parachute did not open and it is estimated that she fell to the ground at a speed of 80 km / h. The girl does not remember the moment of hitting the ground, but, according to the instructor who ran up to her, she constantly asked if she was sleeping and if she was still alive.
Richardson fell face down on the pavement. As a result of the fall, she received multiple fractures of the skull and pelvis, and also broke her right fibula.
However, the biggest shock for everyone was that the hospital found out that at the time of the jump, the girl was in her second week of pregnancy. Despite everything that happened to her, the unborn child, whom she carried under her heart, did not suffer.
4. A skydiver who jumped from a height of 4300 meters did not open the main and reserve parachutes
Brad Guy didn't intend to jump without a parachute, but he did, and he was lucky - he survived.
Guy jumped in tandem with an instructor. They were jumping from a height of 4300 meters when their parachute broke as soon as it was opened. He asked, "Are we going to die?" The only words he heard in response from the instructor, an experienced skydiver with 2,000 tandem jumps behind him: "I don't know."
The reserve parachute opened, but became entangled in the main, and they twirled in the fall. The men fell to the soft earth of the dam at the golf course. Both spent several weeks in the hospital.
Source 5The first wingsuit diver to land safely without the aid of a parachute
In 2012, 42-year-old British stuntman Gary Connery jumped from a helicopter from a height of 732 meters and became the first person to successfully complete a wingsuit flight, landing without a parachute.
During his 40-second fall, Connery reached a speed of 121 km/h. Nearly 100 volunteers, friends and family members built a 100-meter runway for him out of 18,500 cardboard boxes.
"It was bliss," Connery said of the flight. "It was a special day in my life."
Source 6The 80-year-old woman who slipped out of her harness survived her jump with an instructor.
In the case of 80-year-old Laverne Everett (Laverne Everett) opened up, but she could not hold on to the straps, so she also almost made a jump without a parachute.
She trained for her jump at the skydiving center in Lodi, California. And when the moment came to take a decisive step, the woman (for unknown reasons) changed her mind about jumping and began to resist, holding her hands on the open door of the plane. Her instructor had to free her hands, and together they fell out of the plane at an altitude of 4000 meters.
The agency was fined $2,200, allegedly for not tightening the seat belts enough, which "increased the chance that a skydiving student could slip out of the belts and fall to the ground." Watch the creepy moments of the jump of an 80-year-old pensioner in this video:
7The Pilot Who Survived A 4,800 Meter Fall Into The Ocean
In 1963, Naval Aviation pilot Cliff Judkins jumped out of a burning FB Crusader into the ocean. His parachute did not open, and Judkins began to fall down from a height of 4800 meters, fully aware of what was happening during the fall.
He did not lose consciousness even after the fall, swimming, despite his injuries, to the nearest life raft. He stayed in the water for 3 hours before being picked up. A man with an internal hemorrhage and broken bones was sent to the hospital, and he fully recovered.
Source 8The Rookie Skydiver Whose Survival Was Nothing Than Divine Intervention
Rookie skydiver and mother Lareece Butler rushed to the ground when her parachute got tangled during another jump in South Africa. Instructor Joos Vos says her survival is nothing short of a miracle.
Her boyfriend watched the jump from the ground and saw how she fell in a spiral, and then literally crashed into the field.
26-year-old Laris Butler escaped with a broken leg and pelvis, concussion and bruises. She later claimed that she was pushed out of the plane after she became very frightened and began to resist, noticing problems with the parachute of other paratroopers. However, this claim was denied by the operator, the EP Parachute Club.
Today, the whole world is discussing an American jump without a parachute, which will definitely go down in history, as it became a record one. American skydiver Luke Aikins (Luke Aikins or Aikins) made a grandiose jump from an airplane without a parachute from a height of 7620 meters. Watch the video of this jump without a parachute in our article.
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No wonder everyone can't wait to see the 2016 skydive of 42-year-old Luke Aikins. After all, having made a jump from 7000 meters, he landed in a special net measuring 30 by 30 meters. The jump was broadcast live on Fox, which attracted millions of viewers at the screens.
Luke Aikins sets personal and world records for skydiving with greatest height. Before the jump, he said the following:
I'd be lying if I said I didn't care.
He was worried, although he had 18 thousand parachute jumps, 3 world records and all kinds of stunts for Hollywood films behind him. But this jump without a parachute on a trampoline could end fatally. It took years to decide to take this step and become the first person in history to jump from a height of 7 kilometers without a parachute and insurance. It took a year to train, calculate the time of the fall. In the process, it was calculated that the jump itself would last a little more than two minutes, the speed of the fall would change. As a result, the American's jump without a parachute ended with a standing ovation and a record.
We invite you to watch the video dangerous jump without a parachute by Luke Akins.
Watch online video American Luke Aikins jumped without a parachute from a height of more than 7 thousand meters, setting a record
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Skydiving is for cowards, say skydivers arrogantly. These are really crazy people: they are ready to risk their lives for a minute of free flight. Or falls? "Will it fly - won't it fly?" - America wondered on June 30, 2016, watching how a 42-year-old hero dared to jump without a parachute - a planet record.
Extreme and star live broadcast, which thousands of spectators were fascinated by, was Luke Aikins. He has been delirious since childhood parachuting, and made his first jump at the age of 16. Then he himself became an instructor, trained "fur seals", was a stuntman in the cinema. One of the latest works is iron Man-3". But this was not enough, having matured to 42 years old, Luke Aikins set a new world bar - a jump without a parachute to a record of 7620 meters above the ground.
Those who climbed to the top of the pool saw how small the square of water seemed. Now imagine what it's like to get seven miles away into a grid that is 9 square meters. The tests were carried out on dummies: some missed, and one of them tore the life-saving canvas weighing 91 kg. Disturbing, isn't it?
The American prepared his dangerous trick "Message to Heaven" for a year and a half. Behind him are 18 thousand parachute jumps. According to the calculations done, the fall speed is 120-150 miles per hour. At the same time, a distance of 7.6 km is overcome in 2 minutes. During this time, you need to not only have time to enjoy the flight, but also prepare for landing - first roll over on your back in order to avoid injury. And most importantly, get into the desired square. Thanks to modern technology: a GPS navigator came to the rescue in the air currents (probably, he only managed to say “Please turn to ...”). Like an airplane, the madman Aikins was shown the landing spot by luminous spotlights.
Skydiving without a parachute - a Guinness Book record turned into a TV show. On Saturday evening (in Moscow - early Sunday morning) the Fox TV channel escorted the team of Luke Aikins to a light aircraft. Together with the reckless driver, an escort group of three paratroopers flew. Akins was also urged to play it safe, but he decided that excess weight badly hurt him and went light. One of the assistants filmed a historical chronicle, the second held a smoke bomb so that the audience could see the flight path from the ground, and the third stocked up with an oxygen cylinder. At an altitude of three thousand meters, the company opened the parachutes, leaving the skydiver all alone. Not for long. A couple of minutes - and the stands warmly applaud the daredevil, the family hugs the unharmed hero. The miracle happened.
“Incredible. There are no words. Don't repeat it!" - something like this expressed his emotions Luke Aikins, who made a phenomenal jump without a parachute - a record of this summer, which went down in history.
You may think that this is a montage. We have already seen cats flying and what we have not seen. However, as it is not surprising, extreme sportsmen have such a "trick" as a jump without a parachute. Of course, after a while he puts on a parachute, but for a certain time he just flies ...
A hundred times already discussed "risk for the sake of risk." Here are some details and examples of this crazy action...
The name of the person in the video is Travis Pastrana, all the details are on the website.
In general, this is the Guinness World Record for jumping from an airplane without a parachute.
Here is what experienced people write:
- Well, in principle, people have all sorts of desires, someone wants to jump base, thinking that it is safer than skydive and that everything is fine, someone starts to feel like a hero and wants, having no experience, to jump at night or jump from 4000m without an instructor and AFF classes, but all these are already ordinary cases. It’s just that when you look at the whole thing for the first time from a monitor or TV screen, it’s all very beautiful, delights, inspires, but no one sees the other side of the medal. Immediately, questions just arise, something like “Where do they teach bass, how to start jumping?” When you already start to delve a little into everything that is happening, then every time you understand how much more everything is more complicated than it seemed. Well, if a person has such a great desire and aspiration, then I think it’s not worth fighting everything off, but it’s not worth helping to clean up either. Let him go and jump with a standard parachute from a normally flying plane, start parachuting, and then the realization will come. You see, if the priorities do not change in a couple of years, which I doubt terribly, then it will come to the originally set goal.
- in order to try to prepare and accomplish this, I think it may be necessary to actively engage in parachuting for 3-4 years (well, if in days, then approximately 1095-1461 days), for which it is desirable to make at least 1000 jumps.
And people ask:
Were there such people in Russia? Interested in the price of the issue, provided there are no jumps. preparation time in days and approximate price in rubles. please answer to the point
And the answer is in 2010 prices
- Well, actually in the west, parachuting is developed and popularized much better than ours and people jump there more often and sometimes more recklessly. When it is already difficult to surprise or be surprised by something, then for the sake of action they perform tricks, etc. Such chips were not performed by many, but, as a rule, they were very experienced athletes (by the way, some of them finished playing). So there is no question of such a trick in the absence of jumping experience and not for any earthly money. A beginner simply cannot keep up in free fall, he needs to be trained. You can try to call an experienced person for such a trick a freefly jumper with at least 1000 jumps, although even this is not enough. The main thing is that these jumps are productive. There you can also add training in the wind tunnel.
Well, I called the money quite acceptable
600r one jump, 1000 jumps 600t. rub
Let's not forget to spend about 40,000 rubles on AFF
For equipment about 200,000 rubles (system system, and other junk)
It is advisable to jump periodically with an instructor - how much money depends on how many lessons there will be
It’s good to fly in a tube, where one hour costs 22,000 rubles
At the same time, every weekend you need to spend at the airport, in short, you need to actively engage in parachuting. Well, if in a couple of years that you will actively jump and the desire to perform this trick does not disappear, then you will get to know those scumbags who want to help you.
They say it's called banzai skydiving. Apparently, ordinary skydiving does not give enough thrill to Japanese paratroopers, so they jump out of a flying plane, having previously thrown a parachute out of it. The idea is to catch your parachute in mid-flight, put it on and release it before you die from hitting the ground.
This "sport" was originally invented in order to get into the Guinness Book of Records. An entry for this can be found in the 2007 edition of the Book. After the release of the Book, Banzai skydiving quickly became popular in Japan, where anything out of the ordinary is always a success.
But not everything is so simple, here a person was hardly caught.
