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.
I remember reading a story about a WWII American airman who had to bail out or fell out of a bomber over enemy territory.
In the end, he ended up ‘landing’ without a parachute down the gentle slope of a grassy mountain or something like that. He cartwheeled and rolled head over heels down the slope, but he incurred no injuries....
A Russian airman survived a 13,000 foot fall when he hit a snow covered mountain at a high angle and slid to a stop.
Yet if I trip and fall, I will probably break my arm......
Terminal velocity in a free fall is about 125 mph. Think of being in a car hitting a tree at that speed with no seat belt on.
I can believe it.....God is there, you just have to believe sometimes.
No reserve? Or maybe it was too risky since the main was wrapped around his neck?
Lucky man for sure, he is bound to get a nick name out of that one. Lucky is too obvious. Bounce?
after the lines from the parachute wrapped around his neck
He’ll probably get run over by a truck while sleeping in his bed.
IIRC, there are several cases of individuals falling from planes at high altitudes and surviving....one included a person who fell through a plate glass skylight.
Well, Peru is at high elevation. Gravity isn’t as strong up there so he didn’t hit very hard.
Yeah, that’s it.
No reserve, no angled slope, lines tangled around his neck, alive and well with no broken bones after a five thousand foot fall?
LOL, what else is needed to declare a miracle here?
nickname = Wile E. Coyote
Anti-gravity!!!
“Ooooooh sssshhhhhh!!!!!!!!ttttt!!!”
Hope he bought a lottery ticket.
A declaration of faith.
Angel working overtime ...
“Hey physics! Look over there!”
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