Rick Y wrote: Well, it sure LOOKED like he had a parachute hanging down when he was hugging his wife and the story said he had one in case of an emergency so I guess he wasn't that much of a daredevil after all. Or, at least, he's a smart one.
As Mowermech said, he wasn't the first to survive a fall from an airplane. I remember a story from WWII where a member of an aircrew fell, I think, tens of thousands of feet, without a chute or, at least, with a nondeployable one, but the buffeting of very strong winds from a storm helped to slow him and then he also landed on a snow covered steeply sloping field which brought him safely to a stop.
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