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....
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.
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?
He’ll probably get run over by a truck while sleeping in his bed.
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?
Hope he bought a lottery ticket.
“Hey physics! Look over there!”
For your AP physics test, assuming the man weighed 150 pounds, calculate the energy expended to decelerate him from terminal velocity to zero in 1 second.
Extra credit if you can explain how he didn’t end up with ankles around his ears.
There was the teenage girl who survived a fall from a Lockeed Electra that broke up over the Peruvian jungle.
PissPoorPerformance from PeruvianParachutePacker?
I for one don't see any reason at all to jump out of a perfectly functioning airplane.
This is a minor point, to be sure, but the ignorance of the American press on military matters shows up in this article. First, he writes of the “Peruvian air force officer” and a couple paragraphs later, he talks of “the sergeant.” Anyone who knows anything about the military knows that a sergeant is not an officer. He’s an NCO but that’s not the same, by any stretch.
Bttt.
During WWII a guy who jumped out of a burning heavy bomber @ 18000 ft without a parachute (rather than burn to death)walked away from his landing with just some scratches. One of those 80 ft tall pine trees broke his fall. The upper branches broke away(decelerating him) and the lower heaver ones bounced him. The story was in “Into The Silk: The Story of the Caterpillar Club”.