I had a wild dream last night. Somehow I fell out of an airplane a mile up in the air. Something managed to break my fall somewhat along the way down and I was able to walk away, albeit with sore feet, knees and hips.
Which is apropos because I do have sore feet, knees and hips right now as well as an ankle ligament sprain that just does not want to heal. My brain must have tried to make sense of the pain I am feeling and came up with a plausible scenario.
Still the dream got me to thinking. Could someone actually fall out of a plane and walk away?
I found this site, Highest falls survived without a parachute.
It lists twenty two instances but not a lot of people walking away, many seriously broken bones and fractures.
Luke Aikens landed in a net, that is cheating. Kobayashi was on skis, nope.
Juliane gets a serious nod, hiked out of the Peruvian rain forest for eleven days with her broken collarbone. Props to her.
Respect for this guy who traveled 18,000' downwards and only twisted his knee.
Capello managed to walk away like I did in dreamstate but it was only a hundred foot fall. Big deal.
Vesna survived the highest fall without a parachute, 33,000', but life didn't get that much better for her after she hit the ground. The Beatles fan flight attendant was the victim of a briefcase bomb, she ended up in a coma, temporarily paralyzed with lots of broken stuff. Later got fired for taking part in an anti government demonstration.
Guess I got lucky.
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