Posted on 05/08/2014 12:42:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Amasifuen Gamarra, 31, was surprisingly unscathed when his parachute tangled and caused the mile-high fall after he leaped from a plane above Arequipa, Peru, a doctor said.
A Peruvian air force officer miraculously survived a 5,000-foot fall after his parachute malfunctioned during a training excercise, it was reported.
He didn’t even break a bone.
Amasifuen Gamarra, 31, was surprisingly unscathed from the mile-high mishap after the lines from the parachute wrapped around his neck when he leaped from a military plane above Arequipa, in southern Peru, Agence France-Presse reported.
“It’s a miracle he’s alive,” Guillermo Pacheco, an emergency room doctor, told the AFP. “It was the will of God he survived.”
Pacheco said medics performed a battery of tests on the sergeant, but they couldn’t detect any serious injuries.
“We don’t know what cushioned his fall, but he’s alive,” Pacheco said. “It’s a miracle.”
Gamarra, an eight-year veteran of the air force, was transferred to a military hospital for additional testing.
Hmmm...
OK, I’m convinced at this point. You never served in the military. Otherwise, you would know that NCOs are never thought of as officers.
Perfect Practice for Perhaps Positively Preternatural “P” Placement, Pal.
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