“Alcides Moreno, 37, plummeted almost 500 feet in a Dec. 7 scaffolding
collapse that killed his brother.”
Wow...about ten times the height usually called “the death zone”
(a fall from 50 feet).
Well, at least as they say on CSI on TV...it’s not the fall that kills
you...it’s how you land.
But this guy certainly had some sort of nearly unbelievable luck.
Even if it was all physics.
I wonder if he landed on his brother . . .
I think I saw a recommendation for suicide that the jump be at least eight stories.
Don’t quote me on this, but it seems I’ve read stories about skydivers surviving when their parachute failed to deploy. Of course if it deploys partially, that would be a factor. Anyone have any info on that scenario?