A 34-year-oldskydiver fell more than 2,500 feet after his parachute got tangled with another jumper’s, and lived to tell the tale.
The skydiver, identified as Tim, jumped out of a plane in Wisconsin with two of his friends at about 11,000 feet. His friend Razz had brought a biplane kite and wanted to tow it behind him.
Tim recorded the entire jump – including the impact with his jump partner that tangled Tim’s parachute. He wrote on his YouTube page: ‘It’s taken me four and a half years to be able to watch this video.’
All of the skydivers , he said, were highly experienced, and had each landed between 150 and a thousand jumps.
Tim’s jump partner Razz flared his canopy at around 2,500 feet, ensnaring Tim and his own parachute. His partner then cut away and used an emergency chute to land.
Tim was left with a balled-up parachute that barely slowed him down.
He focused the camera both at the parachute, and at the fast-approaching ground below.
He impacted in a nearby cornfield south of Columbus, Wisconsin, breaking his pelvis, back, and neck. He was instantly paralysed.
Razz had landed in a nearby reserve after cutting away from Tim, and rushed to his side. ‘Can you feel your feet?’ he asked as Tim lay gasping and sputtering in pain.
‘No,’ Tim answered. But he said his hands felt tingly.
‘That’s just the shock,’ a friend told him. Razz called an ambulance and kept telling Tim to remain calm and breath.
At one point, Tim sputtered: ‘I’m having trouble breathing, ya’al.’
A friend performed rescue breathing on him as his diaphragm stopped working. He was flown to University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison for emergency surgery.
Tim said on his YouTube page that the accident left him paralysed for life; he is now living as a quadriplegic.
The video is called Stupid Hurts, and explains the particulars of the jump with the wildly popular scrolling introduction from the Star Wars franchise.
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