Miracle man falls 47 stories and survives ...

[geetrue]

Man falls 47 stories on Dec 7th and wakes up on Christmas day ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/nyregion/03cnd-fall.html?em&ex=1199509200&en=5284ab9dc38e32ee&ei=5087%0A

[Dowly]

I've heard that a russian/hungarian/ukrain something like that stewardess fell ~10km or so without a parachute after the airplane exploded and miracously survived. I think it was in some old edition of Guinness book of Records. Go figure. :doh:

EDIT: Here it is


4. Highest Fall Survived Without a Parachute -- Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 33,330 feet when the DC-9 airplane she was traveling in blew up over Czechoslovakia on January 26, 1972. A terrorist bomb was thought to be the cause, and no other passengers survived. Vesna broke both legs and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/11/16/news/nation/20_45_0111_15_04.txt

[Letum]

There was a US airman in the war who fell 25,000ft with no chute and survived and a
female skydiver in the uk who had a total chute failure, landed in a hedge and survived
with only cuts and bruises in the 90s.

[baggygreen]

I just dont understand how!

HOW does the human body hit something, anything at 260km/h or however fast terminal velocity is, and SURVIVE?!?!?

I just cant understand it!

[elite_hunter_sh3]

I've heard that a russian/hungarian/ukrain something like that stewardess fell ~10km or so without a parachute after the airplane exploded and miracously survived. I think it was in some old edition of Guinness book of Records. Go figure. :doh:

EDIT: Here it is


4. Highest Fall Survived Without a Parachute -- Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 33,330 feet when the DC-9 airplane she was traveling in blew up over Czechoslovakia on January 26, 1972. A terrorist bomb was thought to be the cause, and no other passengers survived. Vesna broke both legs and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/11/16/news/nation/20_45_0111_15_04.txt

She was Serbian, :rock: :up:

[Stealth Hunter]

In one case, a B-17 tail gunner was shot down over Italy. The plane blew in half, and the tail section, containing him at the time, fell 27,500 feet. He was pulled out of the wreckage by two Italian soldiers who took him to their base and had him fixed up. He suffered a dislocated arm, a broken leg, and a few fractured ribs. Otherwise, he was fine. He even earned the Italian wound medal!

[joegrundman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade

This RAF guy fell a mere 5.5 km and walked away with just a sprained ankle.

His fall was broken by pine trees and snow. So there you have it. If you find yourself in a similar situation, aim for the trees.:up:

[Spoon 11th]

If you find yourself in a similar situation, aim for the trees.:up:
Unless it is a cactus. 8D

[Kapitan_Phillips]

I think the most powerful line in that article is:

"It just wasn't my time"


I'm waiting for religion to pounce on this one.

[Iceman]

It was't religion...it was simply because A+b=C divided by the suare root of ur IQ , multiplied by the sum of the equation,rounded by the differential with a north wind blowing in from the south during a cold snap which blew in a freak snow storm creating a blanket of snow 10ft thick with an updraft of 100+mph which slowed the decent...


see how stupid people sound sometimes... :)

[Dowly]

I think the most powerful line in that article is:

"It just wasn't my time"

That has to be the most overused line in the world. Come one! Be original! "I saw the Grim Reaper coming and I Kung Fu kicked his head off and took a dump down his throat, that's why I'm here now, alive." Or something! Be creative! :yep:

[Skybird]

That man must be a skybird, no doubt. ;)

[Kapitan_Phillips]

That man must be a skybird, no doubt. ;)


Sucks to be your brother then :rotfl:

[Skybird]

That man must be a skybird, no doubt. ;)


Sucks to be your brother then :rotfl:
Well, no, you become a frisbee champion in no time.

[Mush Martin]

The head instructer at the local Skydiving School had double shoot
failure once. approx 10,000 ft. cut away the first chute had a streamer
on the second and was more surprised than anyone when he came to
vertical up to his chest in a bog with a crowd from the airshow gathering
around him. quite a guy he now sports a permanent surprised look

M

[August]

Lots of similar stories at this website:

http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/ffresearch.html

[Weigh-Man]

Wouldn't there be a distinct lack of oxygen at those sort of heights?

How did they survive that, never mind hitting the ground.

[-SWCowboy.]

Wouldn't there be a distinct lack of oxygen at those sort of heights?

How did they survive that, never mind hitting the ground.

I'm not the brightest bulb in the box, ask Koondawg, but I figure if you're so high up, falling so fast down, then you should have enough air rushing past you to live. That's just my theory...

Amazing stories... can't believe how some people survive this kind of crap :nope: And there I was, 8 or 9 years old, crashing my bike into a parked car with 2 chipped teeth and a damaged groin lymphnode from where I landed on my bike. :o Some of those people walked away with less injuries than I did, and I didn't even get half the impact they got!

[Sailor Steve]

Wouldn't there be a distinct lack of oxygen at those sort of heights?

How did they survive that, never mind hitting the ground.
Well, it takes at least a couple of minutes without oxygen before the brain begins to suffer, and falling at that rate it only takes about 3 minutes to hit the ground from 30,000 feet, so it takes less than a minute to be where the air is thick enough to breathe.

[Letum]

Wouldn't there be a distinct lack of oxygen at those sort of heights?

How did they survive that, never mind hitting the ground. Well, it takes at least a couple of minutes without oxygen before the brain begins to suffer, and falling at that rate it only takes about 3 minutes to hit the ground from 30,000 feet, so it takes less than a minute to be where the air is thick enough to breathe.

Within seconds of oxygen leaving your system you lose consciousness, and at
altitude, not only do you lungs not bring oxygen in, they expel it from your body as
the osmosis in the lungs reverses.

At 30,000ft you have about 1-2 mins, above that you only have seconds before you
become insensible. About 10 seconds at 40,000ft.
Even tho there is still some O2, this is much less time then drowning takes because
of the low pressure.

[Peto]

The screaming probably keeps the lungs drawing in plenty of air ;).

[Onkel Neal]

Yeah, plus I imagine when you are falling 5 miles up you are breathing about 800 times faster than usual, that probably helps :arrgh!:

[Peto]

It's time to ask, "What would Jerod do?" :lol: