As reported in the book Into the Silk, The story of The Caterpillar Club a B17 pilot who’s chute was burned beyond use opted to jump rather than burn to death in the still flying but doomed plane, fell 18,000 feet and walked away with barely a scratch. He fell thru one of those 80 some odd foot tall pines. The top branches broke off and slowed him down and the lower heaved branches bounced him. If I recall he died a few years later riding a dirt bike in the woods when a tree fell and hit him.
wow! one tree saved him and another took him out.