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Skydivers make a living from their wrist and helmet mounted cameras, its already in their existing business models to sell footage....so why not to the news media?

That's very interesting that NBC _licensed_ the footage. That's damn smart of the skydivers -- they deserve to get money for this. But it does seem like an ethical gray area for the news agencies. Was there a bidding war? Is that common?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Skyding, Formation, Lucky, Lucky, Lucky, fire, wings falling off' to 'Skydiving, Formation, Lucky, Lucky, Lucky, fire, wings falling off' - edited by calvados

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Skydiving cat actually.

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'one, lucky, bastard' to 'lucky, skydiver, fall, parachute malfunction' - edited by kulpims

Can't even handle the Gs (or fractions of 1 G) that skydiving provides? DANG!

Even the smartest people can become "deer in the headlights" type stupid when they are overstimulated in an environment like a skydive. This guy couldn't pull his own chute only because he was new, scared, tense and overwhelmed once he lost control.

This guy wasn't on his first time as a solo skydiver, he probably had ten jumps or so and is clearly still over-amped from the whole experience. The worst thing you can do on a skydive is tense up and overcompensate all of your movements. All you need to do is relax and be symmetrical and you will stabilize thanks to the airflow. This is the exact opposite of what you have been taught your whole life where you need to fling your body's momentum around rather emphatically if you want to get anywhere at lower airspeeds (think doing a backflip off of a diving board, you need to emphatically kick your legs up and your head back - in skydiving it's all about smooth controlled movements that control airflow, not momentum).

The dude just freaked out and flailed about like an idiot. Human error, that's all.

The instructor is a certified badass for catching and saving the student as low as he did.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'landing, germany, dornier 28, pilot, plane, skydiver, skydiving' to 'landing, germany, dornier 28, pilot, plane, skydiver, skydiving, Sail, AWOL' - edited by Trancecoach

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>> ^deathcow:

what the HELL is that reporter wearing


Fur.


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