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Skydiver Almost Struck By Meteorite
I think a more interesting title would be "Skydiver killed by meteorite while in free fall." But that might just be a tad morbid, and wrong. So let's go with "hit by" instead . . .
Otherwise, it's quite plausible for something like this to happen. We're constantly being bombarded so eventually it's bound to happen. But yeah, was hoping for more smoke and flames.
Skydiver Almost Struck By Meteorite
@Payback If pic here is reliable doesn't look like it came from the chute. Also no one is even questioning where it came from. Seems they know.
http://www.universetoday.com/110963/norwegian-skydiver-almost-gets-hit-by-falling-meteor-and-captures-it-on-film/
Yup, I reckon he scooped it up from the last time he packed his chute...maybe on the ground near loose rocks?
Wingsuiters Chase Skiiers Down a Mountain, One Almost Dies
Quick research reveals some stuff about wingsuit flying over snow.
Those wingsuit skydivers are probably traveling about 60-100 mph. During that near miss, when the one skydiver flairs his suit, he probably dropped down to as little as 40 mph.
Ski racers can travel around 50-100 mph. We see crashes at those speeds all the time in snow and the skiier is generally uninjured.
The fastest skiiers, in the aerodynamic suits, are travelling 120-150 mph. Those crashes are obivously survivable, although catastrophic injury happens.
So, it stands to reason that a serious accident involving a wingsuit flyer over snow is very survivable. With some time to flare, there's no reason they couldn't walk away with little more than bruises. In fact, I suspect it's only a matter of time before we finally see a wingsuit pilot land without a parachute. Maybe over snow first, eventually over water and ultimately...why shouldn't we see someone with the skill to land on solid ground. With appropriate advances in equipment.
Wingsuiters Chase Skiiers Down a Mountain, One Almost Dies
Actually, that was some pretty deep powder on a 45 degree slope with no major oncoming obstacles. If you're going to hit something at Mach 6 and survive, it would be powder snow.
Several videos out there of people skydiving and surviving hitting the ground at terminal velocity with only a drag chute deployed. Granted, they are major puckered units, but that is a situation more akin to "almost died".
I guess what I mean is, I don't classify near misses as "almost dying". It's like saying she's "almost pregnant" after pulling away before coitus.
Wingsuit terrain flying is kinda an either - or sort of thing. If something goes wrong you either have spectacular footage of a close call and you walk away scot free, or you die. There isn't much middle ground where paramedics would be useful.
This guy was incredibly close to dying pulling a turn like that.
Emergency Landing during softball game
Be kinda hard to explain that away as an accident. Where he did land was about as far away from people as he could have gotten considering he was a full-on skydiver at that point.
I was a little disappointed he didn't really slide into home base, but it was still a great video and nice landing.
Why it's a good idea to plummet to earth with a buddy.
When they say "certain death" that's really just typical objective news sensationalism, right? I mean his emergency chute would have automatically deployed once his gear detected he was at a low enough altitude and not slowing down, right?
I don't know much about the mechanics of skydiving, but I thought all skydivers had a backup/automatic chute in case of emergency.
People Almost Dying on Skydives and BASE jumps
3:05 is some amazing Wile E. Coyote style pucker factor.
I'm also interested in how the lawsuit against the skydive pilot who dropped everyone over a jet approach corridor is doing.
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Skydiving World Record Unedited and in Real Time
138 skydivers in formation while upside down
So what was the record?
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Skydivers Escape Two Airplanes in Midair Collision
The skydivers were on the TODAY show
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2 planes collide midflight, everyone survives
This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by eric3579.
2 planes collide midflight, everyone survives
yep. *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Skydivers-Escape-Two-Airplanes-in-Midair-Collision
2 planes collide midflight, everyone survives
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