[Sax]

Fantastic! I guess the first 8000 feet don't really matter, it's what happens in the last 30!

[U S Army EOD]

It should be on the internet somewhere, I first read the story in Readers Digest. There was also a German girl whose plane crashed somewhere in South America. It was a medium size commercial airliner that disintegrated about a 1000 or so feet up over the jungle. She was still strapped in her seat and she remembered every bit of the fall. She was able to walk several miles out through the jungle and down rivers for help. This happened some time in the 60's.

[U S Army EOD]

Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/free_fall and then scroll down to people surviving free fall. Isn't the internet fantastic?