2007-10-05 11:37:49 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
I knew this guy named Wartman in the Navy. His mother survived the entire ordeal. It was all over the news for the longest time.
2007-10-07 17:29:55 · answer #1 · answered by Jadochop 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was another parachutist who jumped from 5,000 feet in the Phoenix area a few years back. There are videos of him falling after both chutes failed to open. He hit the hard caliche soil at over 200 MPH. The video focused on his still body and then showed him get to his feet and walk away.
He had a smashed nose and required some surgery on it. Otherwise he was fine, although quite bruised. I can only guess that he survived because he landed perfectly flat and the shock of landing was evenly distributed and absorbed by his entire body surface. It just wasn't his time to go.
2007-10-05 23:19:07 · answer #2 · answered by GENE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my own. Even though I was only five years old, afterwards, I jumped around like a crazy animal whooping and laughing all by myself in a forest because I was fully aware of the absolute weirdness of having survived. I lived in Alaska and was playing in foothills near home when a powerful earthquake hit. It knocked me to the ground and rolled me over on my back. As I looked up, a glacier rock or boulder LITERALLY the size of a house broke off from a cliff side and fell directly down out of the sky at me. It was a horrible thing to see and to know that one was about to die like that. I closed my eyes and rolled over . . .no time to move . . .and the enormous thing impacted with an ear-rupturing noise on the ground less than four feet away from me. The concussion made my ears and nose bleed. But, for heaven's sake, even I knew as I regrouped and got up and took it all in that I was like DANG lucky. I have returned to Alaska as an adult and stood on top of the same boulder.
2007-10-05 18:52:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
So far, a pregnant woman jumped from a plane (skydiving) and her chute failed (she was spinning to the ground in a tangled chute). She landed on her face and stomach, shattered every bone in her face and the baby was born without complications or problems. Mother did live too.
2007-10-05 18:47:37 · answer #4 · answered by tercentenary98 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I watched this one TLC documentary on a boy who got shot but survived.Thing is, he was missing 50% of his right skull! It was gross but he could still walk and talk..amazing!
2007-10-05 18:45:04 · answer #5 · answered by *I'm the Best...I Deed It!* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋