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From the russian base board, brief factual translation of an accident on 07.03.11:

160m powerline tower. Front loop, stowed, pulled too soon (standing up) and into crosswind, bridle went under arm and remained there till impact. Container opened, but nothing inflated, lines still stowed in the rubber band on a tailpocket. Hit soft deep snow at 7 seconds.

Unconscious for 2 minutes. Broken back and other lesser injuries. Presently in the hospital, speaking to his friends on the phone.

HOLY LUCK!!!!!

fucking tough ass russian mother fuckers. haha

firstly, glad to hear our russian bro is okay and talking. healing vibes from the USA!

second, i hope somebody posts video.

Thank God for the snow!

I knew a Russian would beat Jeb's landing without a rig project.


On a serious note, miracles do happen - thank who or whatever you believe in that he survived. All the best of luck with recovery.

On a lesson note - the last fatal in Australia was the same (I know it was a backloop - but since it is the land downunder you reverse it for the northern hemisphere and it therefore becomes the same!).


Take Care Doing Aerials out there folks!

http://www.basejumper.com/...70ft_Gainer_555.html

i think this looks similar to all of these incidents that we keep hearing about...

This was not a total (me being wise ass) but a PC in tow.

About Jeb, this guy had a rig

hi Yuri,

glad he survived!

Since nobody has asked it yet... what body position did he have when he hit the snow?

No idea. Trying to get the footage from the boys for the carnage tape, but they're being soft cunts for now. We will know more in a bit.

How deep was the snow? They might be on to something you know....

Deep of snow was about 1-1.2m.

Good point. Although, is it really a base jump if you can survive a total? I'll sure as hell take the snow if I can get it!

Best of luck to the jumper for a fast recovery. I'm sure your bag of luck is empty, so I am sending you some of mine.

What size PC was he using? If he can land that then I figure that's the one I should stick with from here on out.

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Òåìó ñèñåê òåïåðü ìîæíî ñ÷èòàòü çàêðûòîé.

not the first time, either... during the russo-finnish war, the Russians experimented with dropping parachuteless paratroopers into snowbanks, though the drop altitude was much lower than 160 meters.

discontinued because the insertion casualties were too high.

anyway, great to hear that he lived through it with minimal injuries. Beer! (or vodka)\

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You sure about that? Having lived near the eastern border most of my life I've heard a lot of stuff about Winter/Continuation war but that I haven't heard before.

I'm not as sure now as I was when I made the post! I checked a little and apparently there are multiple versions of this story, some with it happening during the Russo-Finnish war, others during the battle of Moscow, etc... so I don't know if it's true or a longstanding not-so-urban legend. Anyway, here's an interesting look at it.

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Just yesterday heard a story about guy in Siberia (N/E of Russia), who was jumping military freefall with comrades (everybody was drunk like hell) and had total mal.

He was on terminal speed when he impacted big pile of snow (12+ meter high). These huge piles of snow were result of DZ LZ cleaning during whole winter. The guy was in tracking position and actually flew inside of the pile, not just fell vertically :)
He fully stopped inside of the snow pile when there barely were 2 meters left to the ground.

His friends saw the impact and thought that he was already dead. Searching for a body in such a huge pile was useless (night was coming and it started to freeze miserably).
So they left and went to one's hut, where they started to drink lots of vodka in memory of their good friend. Closer to the dusk, when everybody was already drunk as shit, this guy appeared at the doorway, still holding his canopy and with container on.
He was angry with them, because they thought he was dead and even didn't start to search for him :D
His front side of the body was totally bruised, but no bones were damaged :)


I have no idea was it real or just a legend.

Really "hard to kill" guy...

I vote vodka-inspired legend.

It's possible (but highly unlikely) that the snow in Siberia is different from that in other parts of the world, but all of the snow I have ever been exposed to (Canada, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, etc.) freezes hard as hell within a couple hours of being disturbed and pushed/blown/moved into a pile. It becomes much more like a block of ice than like freshly fallen or undisturbed snow.

I'd rather take my chances with a meter of undisturbed snow vs. 12m of snow in a pile...

Through that link I found :

http://soviethammer.devhub.com/...t-luck-paratroopers/

which has a fairly extensive look on Soviet use of paratroopers in Second World war and prior. It also discusses the stories of dropping soldiers without parachutes and its seems all the stories are purely legends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZ7Tyf7_YM&feature=player_embedded

Its plausible.

The day before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3im9Mh6Kg28

Are we ever going to see the video from that incident

That depends solely on the performer. He showed it, but refused to post it in public.

Fucking lame. This kids will never learn

He keeps asking himself how the hell is it that he's still alive, so he's getting there. Slowly, but surely

I know of an non-fatal total incident from the 1980s. A jumper from Houston, Texas named John Jones jumped a 130 foot water tower. His direct bag holder dropped the bag. The bag was not secured. John fell the complete distance with only a closed direct bag above him. He hit hard ground. He did not brake any bones but he had terrible emotional problems after that presumably from a head injury despite not having a skull fracture.

Freaky shit happens . There was the guy in Moab that one year when I was there . Who pulled a borrowed Rig out of a trunk & he ran-off the Exit with a Field-Packed , locked-off Daisy-chained Streamer . He Burned-in on the Talus & everyone thought/assumed he was dead but about 20-minutes later someone saw his body twitch so they called Life Flight . & then he showed-up & he was walking around with a Cane 3 days latter .
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Oh, Crater Nate. Funny thing is that a jumper from San Antonio called the Grim Leaper drove Crater Nate home. The same thing had happened to B. Grim the year before, so I called the crew of them the Crater crew.

Video has been posted, enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/...ed&v=CmcCIXJwdlw

Wow

The Wow part is that 6 month later we happily jumped a B with him. Then later that night he jumped a crane and broke his arm on landing

Forget parachutes... Hell forget boxes...

All you need is 2 hoodies + plenty of snow

On the serious tip, what was the cause?

you can see that he throws the pilot to early and that it probably got under his armpit
edit to add: the bridal of course :-)

miracle ?

How the fuck does someone do that and not die?!!!!

Walt

That and he's a lefty so he pithced into the wind.

There's already a cult and a school that brings his teachings to the world

HOLY SHIT

But the real question is did the person filming jump after seeing that jump or walk down?

I was wondering the exact same thing. If I saw that I would assume my buddy just died, but everyone knows the quickest way to help is to jump.

Damn.... that must be the worst

Yeah, I was wondering why there
is no audio of the guy/gal filming
screaming their fucking head off ?

PS: I love the shaking hand and
the practice pumps before exit !!

PPS: I'd do the same thing if I
was going stowed and trying to
do a front flip from 300ish feet.

The guy filming walked down, there was ground crew.

GreenMachine
Actually the exit is 525 feet.

Curious, could someone translate what the camera guy said?

"Bollocks, he owed me 20 bucks..."

"Wait.... you've got the car keys!!!!!!"

THAT'S WHAT I SAID!!!

Yeah, 7s to impact. Albeit with some drag.

Fuck.

REDAKTOR:

Actually the exit is 525 feet

xnewmanx:

Yeah, 7s to impact. Albeit with some drag.


My bad, only watched it twice, and didn't count.

On the homepage of the main italian newspaper... http://video.corriere.it/...e1-a141-5df29481da70

Lucky man!!!

The video also made it onto RT.

He said
FUCK

Well, he's Tosh.O famous now.

the other video link on this thread appears to be dead, so here is a current video link that works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZKA0iNvePc&feature=related