[Nik Naym]

The video sux. It just shows a couple seconds of chute, ground getting closer.

I want to see the guy hit the roof.

(He survived, so it isn’t ghoulish)

Seriously: there was a case (during WW2 I think it was) where a man fell from many thousands of feet with NO parachute. He crashed through a glass roof, and survived.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“Seriously: there was a case (during WW2 I think it was) where a man fell from many thousands of feet with NO parachute. He crashed through a glass roof, and survived.”

The terminal velocity of a falling human being with arms and legs outstretched is about 120 miles per hour (192 km per hour) - the resistance of the air rushing by slows him down. A free-fall from 30,000 feet or one from 10,000 Feet would result in the same termional velocity of approx 120 mph.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/JianHuang.shtml

[jwparkerjr]

IIRC, he was the tail gunner on a bomber and there wasn't room enough in the turret for both him and a parachute. It was stowed forward, through a tunnel like access. He chose to jump and die from the fall rather than go down with a flaming aircraft. Tough choice, but as it turns out his time wasn't up.

I remember reading the story in Reader's Digest when I was kid, probably in the mid 1950’s.

[Lmo56]

Someone else survived - can’t remember when ...

Winter time, chute never opened, fell into 30-foot snow drift between the trees in a forest ... bumps, bruises, and scrapes only !!!

[Polynikes]

“Seriously: there was a case (during WW2 I think it was) where a man fell from many thousands of feet with NO parachute. He crashed through a glass roof, and survived.”

I read something similar years ago. The dropee in question was a British bomber crewman whose chute didn't fully deploy. He crashed thru the limbs of a fir tree and landed in a snowbank during winter. He survived albeit with some broken bones.