Height for guaranteed death?

Alchemy

Alchemy

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Is there actually a height where one can guarantee inevitable death? No, I'm not contemplating the worst. :p I was watching the ITV news yesterday and some skydiver survived after his parachute failed, apparently he travelled at 100 mph before he hit the ground. He only sustained a broken ankle and a collapsed lung. Surely shenanigans, did anyone else see it?

I also remember the case of that father who jumped out of the window with his two children and he survived but the kids didn't. That was a ridiculous height if memory serves.
 
Depends on whether you're tangled in a parachute or free-falling and whether anything breaks your fall or if you land on a hard surface.

Landing on concrete you can guarantee death from 100m :D
 
I doubt there is any guarantee of death. There's always a chance, however improbable, of landing on a mattress that cushions the impact sufficiently to ensure you survive.
 
I saw it :D

Was it the New Zealander?

He had the camera on when he was falling with his tangled shoot and then he relized he was gonna hit the ground and he waved good bye and then said "**** im dead. BYE!!!"

Then hit the ground 10 secondsa later.


What made him survive was the blackberry bushes he landed in :cool:
 
I don't think it's the same guy...

What I can't understand is how he only managed to break his ankle? (and the lung damage) There is a certain way of landing to minimise impact, isn't there? I doubt any such method would be useful in said heights though.

EDIT: yep, that's the guy.
 
Zip said:
I saw it :D

Was it the New Zealander?

He had the camera on when he was falling with his tangled shoot and then he relized he was gonna hit the ground and he waved good bye and then said "**** im dead. BYE!!!"

Then hit the ground 10 secondsa later.


What made him survive was the blackberry bushes he landed in :cool:
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Remember seeing the video. As he crashed someone came and asked him "are you ok? Are you alive"

Think he responded "No I'm Not, and Am I Alive?" Something like that.

If something breaks your fall, you'd be lucky. But travelling 100mph from 13000ft, not sure.
 
the guy in NZ whos parachute got tangled still had the tangled chute creating drag too


also after been blow up in a passenger plane...
vulović was the only survivor on the flight. She continued working for JAT at a desk job following her full recovery from injuries which included a fractured skull, two broken legs and three broken vertebrae, one of which was crushed and left her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. She regained the use of her legs only after surgery.
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imagine if that happened these days , she certainly wouldnt need to work again
 
Johnny Girth said:
Depends on whether you're tangled in a parachute or free-falling and whether anything breaks your fall or if you land on a hard surface.

Landing on concrete you can guarantee death from 100m :D
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Or if small children break your fall! :D
 
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