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If the elevator was falling just fast enough to kill you, jumping up, just before impact, could save your life. It would reduce your velocity a bit, and that's all you would need to be falling just below lethal velocity. (Assuming that the elevator car doesn't break up, and impale you with parts.) Anyhow, if you ever find yourself in such a situation, what have you got to lose by trying. Just make sure it happens in a glass-bottom elevator -- so you can see when you're about to hit ground. (Then you just have to worry about being impaled by shards of glass.)

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That reminds me of the scene in The Omen II where the scientist survives an elevator plunging to the ground.

But the falling cables cut the car (and him) in half.

Scary. Here's a nightmare for ya:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11gx3_damien-omen-ii_news