What is the post-news on the Portland airplane flying door accident? Out the flying door went a smart phone which was found on the ground and it was still functioning. It had the flight's baggage claim email so the person recognized that it was no normally dropped phone. It had dropped 15,000 feet. It survived very well. Other items have been retrieved, but nothing as interesting as the phone.
There are strange stories of surviving long falls from the sky. What about Brad Guy - he fell 15,000 feet and survived. That was in 2013 when his parachute got entangled in a skydiving incident. He and his instructor landed in a lake on a golf course. They were half-submerged and entangled, unable to move and yet miraculously, both of them survived. The real injury for him was the subsequent PTSD.
In 2021 a British soldier survived a 15,000 foot fall in which he crashed through someone's roof in California. He had a reserve parachute that opened but not at a sufficient height to land on the allocated Drop Zone. The UK Ministry of Defence took over and said that "the solider received minor injuries and is recovering well." That article was interesting for its lack of facts on the injured person with no name of the person and no real report on the injuries. The article had a picture of the injuries soldier stuck in the tiled roof.
I would never guess that there are over 10 people who have had the experience of surviving more than 5,000 foot falls. There are articles on the science of survival such a fall. Land on a glass roof, in a lake, something soft will increase the chances. One person fell into power lines - did not get electrocuted in the process. And the most important element - don't fall on your head.
Here's that flying umbrella from a few years ago - I remember that it did, in fact, land on its head.
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