Parachute fails, guy lives

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Off topic, but don't go too far overboard - after all, we are watching...heh.
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gowhitesox99
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Parachute fails, guy lives

Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:07 pm

WOW!!! go buy a lotto ticket. i saw the video on the news, he waves to the camera and says goodbye..... lucky dude

http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/content/articles/2006/12/20/michael_holmes_fall_feature.shtml
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Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:59 pm

only a punctured lung and a broken ankle after a 2 mile fall. He must have done some hard core praying during the fall...

*oh wait his cxhute partially opened. That's less impressive but still pretty jammy...
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Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:13 pm

guy is lucky.
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Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:27 pm

i saw the video, his aux chute opened about 25%, cuz it got tangled right into the then tangled main chute...
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Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:55 am

here is the video. CRAZY!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEnpV_3gHH0
Buliwyf
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Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:40 pm

http://cdn.tangozebra.com/00010943/MoSSkydiver/470x398_fixed_placement_videoFLV.swf
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Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:53 pm

amazing...
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Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:18 pm

He was actively dealing with his situation calmly the whole way down, trying to fix the problem. One thing we know about this guy--he's mentally and physically tough as hell.
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Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:05 am

no doubt, I would need a change of underwear, that's for sure
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Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:10 pm

unbelievable
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Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:07 pm

N00b. All he had to do was press "9".
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Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:37 pm

Originally posted by Chacal
N00b. All he had to do was press "9".


Apparently he only pressed it once. When we all know you need to press it repeatedly.:D
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Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:50 am

They must have some angry lawyers...

Anyway here's the official link cos they seem to be determined to force everyone to go to their site so they can display how inadequate their streaming is and what a mediocre journalistic output they are:

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/mos/skydiver.html?in_article_id=435694&in_page_id=1990&in_a_source=
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