The man jumped out of the plane without a parachute. Mozhaisk landing: from a low-level flight without parachutes to German tanks. Luke Aikns is lying online, and his brain is trying in every way to understand what just happened.
Several stories about real lucky ones who were on the verge of death, but still survived in an almost hopeless situation during a fall from an extreme height.
1. A stuntman who jumped from a height of 7600 meters without a parachute and landed safely on a stretched net
Most recently, in July, extreme and skydiver Luke Aikins successfully jumped from a plane without a parachute - of his own free will. (He is one of only two people on this list whose parachute jump was not an accident.)
The daredevil jumped from a height that almost doubled more height normal jump (7600 meters - usually skydivers making a long jump, jumping from a height of about 4000 meters) and landed on a stretched net almost 1/3 of a football field. To see how it does this with nerves of steel (and other parts of the body), watch this video:
2. The parachutist who filmed the accident that happened to him during the jump
In 2006, the heartbreaking footage of the fall of skydiver Michael Holmes, who survived a seemingly hopeless situation by making a hard landing in a blackberry bush, was captured by a helmet-mounted video camera that his instructor put on him before jumping from an airplane from a height of 4300 meters.
Holmes, 24, didn't panic when he got entangled in a parachute at an altitude of about 1.2 kilometers. Based on his rich experience and training, he, not paying attention to his uncontrolled rotation - he made 84 revolutions during the flight - tried to open the reserve parachute. He did it, but too late to really help in this situation. The only thing that saved his life was landing in a blackberry bush.
He escaped with a collapsed lung and a fractured ankle and later returned to jumping with the words: "This is what I do. This is what I love."
3. Skydaver, who learned about her 2-week pregnancy after falling from a height
Shayna Richardson started skydiving when she was 21 years old. In 2005, a resident of Joplin, Missouri, was making her 10th jump in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, with a brand new parachute when something went wrong.
She made a solo jump at an altitude of about 900 meters, when the main parachute did not open and, according to estimates, she fell to the ground at a speed of 80 km / h. The girl does not remember the moment she hit the ground, but, according to the instructor who ran up to her, she constantly asked if she was sleeping and if she was still alive.
Richardson fell face down on the asphalt. As a result of the fall, she received multiple fractures of the skull and pelvis, and also broke the right fibula.
However, the biggest shock for everyone was that the hospital discovered that at the time of the jump, the girl was in the second week of pregnancy. Despite everything that happened to her, the unborn child, whom she carried under her heart, did not suffer.
4. A parachutist who jumped from a height of 4300 meters did not open the main and reserve parachutes
Brad Guy was not going to jump without a parachute, but he did, and he was lucky - he survived.
Guy jumped together with the instructor. They were making a jump from a height of 4300 meters when their parachute broke as soon as it was opened. He asked, "Are we going to die?" The only words he heard in response from an instructor, an experienced skydiver, who has over 2000 tandem jumps: "I don't know."
The reserve parachute opened, but got mostly entangled, and they got twisted in the fall. The men fell to the soft ground of a dam near the golf course. Both spent several weeks in the hospital.
5. First wingsuit diver to land safely without a parachute
In 2012, 42-year-old British stuntman Gary Connery jumped 732 meters from a helicopter and became the first person to successfully complete a wingsuit flight, landing without a parachute.
During his 40-second fall, Connery reached a speed of 121 km / h. Almost 100 volunteers, friends and family members built a 100-meter runway for him from 18,500 cardboard boxes.
"It was bliss," Connery said of the flight. "It was a special day in my life."
6.80-year-old woman who slipped out of the straps survived a jump with an instructor
In the case of 80-year-old Laverne Everett (Laverne Everett) opened, but she could not keep in the straps, so she also almost jumped without a parachute.
She was preparing to jump at a parachute center in Lodi, California. And when the moment came to take the decisive step, the woman (for some unknown reason) changed her mind to jump and began to resist, holding onto open door aircraft. Her instructor had to free her hands, and together they fell out of the plane at an altitude of 4000 meters.
The agency was fined $ 2,200 for allegedly not tightening the seat belts, which "increased the likelihood that a student skydiver could slip out of the harness and fall to the ground." Watch the spooky moments of the 80-year-old retiree's jump in this video:
7. A pilot who survived a fall from a height of 4800 meters, falling into the ocean
In 1963, naval pilot Cliff Judkins jumped from a burning FB Crusader into the ocean. His parachute did not open, and Judkins began to fall down from a height of 4800 meters, fully aware of what was happening during the fall.
He did not lose consciousness after the fall, swimming, despite his injuries, to the nearest life raft. He stayed in the water for 3 hours before being picked up. The man with internal hemorrhage and bone fractures was sent to the hospital and he fully recovered.
8. A novice parachutist whose survival cannot be called anything other than divine intervention
Newbie parachutist and mother, Lareece Butler, rushed to the ground when her parachute became entangled during another jump in South Africa... Instructor Joos Vos says her survival is nothing short of a miracle.
Her young man watched the jump from the ground and saw her fall in a spiral, and then literally crashed into the field.
26-year-old Laris Butler escaped with a broken leg and pelvis, concussion and bruises. She later claimed that she was pushed out of the plane after becoming very frightened and resisted, noticing other parachute problems with the parachute. However, this claim was rejected by the operator, the EP Parachute Club.
A Soviet pilot who was making a reconnaissance flight on enemy territory during his return noticed a column of German armored vehicles moving towards Moscow.
It turned out that there were no barriers or anti-tank weapons on the way of the enemy tanks. It was decided to drop the troops in front of the column. A fresh regiment of Siberians was brought to the nearest airfield.
They built it, invited the volunteers to jump from the plane into the snow and stop the enemy.
Moreover, they immediately warned that they would have to jump without parachutes, from a low-level flight right in front of the column. It was not an order, but a request, but everyone took a step forward.
Below are the lines from the novel by Yuri Sergeev "Prince's Island": “The German column was speeding along the snow-covered highway.
Suddenly, low-flying Russian planes appeared ahead, as if they were about to land, creeping over the snowdrifts, dropping to the maximum speed, ten to twenty meters from the surface of the snow, and suddenly people fell in bunches on the snow-covered field next to the road.
They tumbled in the snow whirlwinds, and more and more new fighters in white sheepskin coats jumped behind and seemed to the enemy, seized by panic horror that there would be no end to this white tornado, this white celestial river of Russians falling into the snow next to tanks behind a ditch, standing up alive and on the move rushing under the tracks with bundles of grenades ... They walked like white ghosts, pouring machine guns into infantry in vehicles, anti-tank rifle shots burned through the armor, several were already burning.
The Russians were not visible in the snow, they seemed to grow out of the earth itself: fearless, furious and holy in their retribution, unstoppable by any weapon. The battle was seething and bubbling on the highway. The Germans killed almost everyone and were already rejoicing at the victory, seeing a new column of tanks and motorized infantry that caught up with them, when again a wave of planes crawled out of the forest and a white waterfall of fresh fighters poured out of them, hitting the enemy even in the fall ...
The German columns were destroyed, only a few armored cars and vehicles escaped from this hell and rushed back, bearing mortal horror and mystical fear of the fearlessness, will and spirit of the Russian soldier. After it turned out that when falling into the snow, only twelve percent of the landing party died.
The rest took an unequal battle.
The person in the video is called Travis Pastrana, all the details are on the website.
In general, this is the Guinness World Record for jumping from an airplane without a parachute
Here's what experienced people write:
- Well, in principle, people have all sorts of desires, someone wants to jump the base, thinking that he is safer than a skydive and that everything is fine, someone starts to feel like a hero and wants, without experience, to jump at night or jump from 4000m without an instructor and AFF classes, but these are all common cases. It's just that when for the first time you look at this whole thing from a monitor or TV screen, then everything is very beautiful, delightful, inspiring, but at the same time no one sees back side medals. Immediately, questions like "Where do they teach bass, how to start jumping?" When you already begin to delve a little into everything that is happening, then each time you understand how much more complicated everything is than it seemed. Well, if a person has such a great desire and aspiration, then I think you should not beat off everything at the root, but you should not help to get out. Let him go and jump in a standard parachute from a normally flying plane, start parachuting, and then the realization will come. You look, if the priorities do not change in a couple of years, which I really doubt, then you will come to the originally set goal.
- in order to try to prepare and do this, I think you may need to actively engage in parachuting for 3-4 years (well, if in days, then about 1095-1461 days), for which it is desirable to make at least 1000 jumps.
And people ask:
- were there such people in Russia? interested in the price of the issue, provided there are no jumps. preparation time in days and approximate price in rubles. I ask you to answer only on the merits
And the answer is in 2010 prices
- Well, in fact, in the west, parachuting is developed and popularized much better than ours and they jump there more often and sometimes more recklessly. When it's already difficult to surprise or be surprised at something, then for the sake of action they perform tricks, etc. Such tricks were not performed by many, but, as a rule, they were very experienced athletes (by the way, some of them played out). So we are not even talking about such a trick in the absence of jumping experience and not for any earthly money. A beginner simply cannot hold onto a free fall, he needs to be trained. Experienced for such a trick, you can try to call a person jumping a free-fly with at least 1000 jumps, although even this is not enough. The main thing is that these jumps are effective. There you can also add training in a wind tunnel.
Well, I called the money quite acceptable
600r one jump, 1000 jumps 600t. rub
Let's not forget to spend about 40,000 rubles for AFF
For equipment about 200,000 rubles (system, and other junk)
It is advisable to jump periodically with an instructor - how much money depends on how many lessons there will be
A good flight in a tube, where one hour costs 22,000 rubles
At the same time, every weekend you need to spend at the airfield, in short, you need to actively engage in parachuting. Well, if in a couple of years that you will actively jump and the desire to perform this trick does not disappear, then you will get acquainted with those thugs who want to help you.
It is said to be called banzai skydiving. Apparently, ordinary parachute jumps do not provide enough thrills for Japanese parachutists, so they jump out of a flying plane after throwing a parachute out of it. The idea is to catch your parachute in flight, put it on and dismiss it before being killed by hitting the ground.
This "sport" was originally invented in order to get into the Guinness Book of Records. A record of this can be found in the 2007 edition of the Book. After the publication of the Book, Banzai skydiving quickly became popular in Japan, where anything outside the normal range is a success.
But not everything is so simple, here they hardly caught a man.
Where to aim? Maggie crashed to the stone station floor, but his fall was slowed down when he broke through the glass roof the moment before. It hurts, but it is salutary. A haystack will do. Some lucky ones survived, ending up in a dense bush. Thicket is also good, although you can run into some branch. Snow? Just perfect. Swamp? The soft, vegetated bog is the most desirable option. Hamilton recounts an incident when a skydiver with an unopened parachute landed directly on high-voltage wires. The wires sprung and threw him up, keeping him alive. The most dangerous surface is water. Like concrete, it is practically incompressible. The result of falling on the ocean surface will be about the same as falling on the sidewalk. The only difference is that the asphalt, alas! - will not open beneath you to absorb the shattered body forever.
Without losing sight of the intended goal, take care of your body position. To slow down your fall, act like a skydiver on a skydive. Spread your legs and arms wider, throw your head back higher, straighten your shoulders, and by yourself you will turn your chest to the ground. Your drag will increase immediately, and there will be room for maneuver. The main thing is not to relax. In your, frankly, predicament, the question of how to prepare for a meeting with the ground remains, unfortunately, not fully resolved. An article on this topic was published in the 1942 journal War Medicine. It said: “Load distribution and compensation play a big role in trying to avoid injury.” Hence the recommendation - you need to fall flat. On the other hand, a 1963 report published by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) argues that the classic skydiving grouping is optimal for saving life: legs together, knees high, shins pressed to thighs. The same source noted that training in sports such as wrestling or acrobatics greatly contributes to survival in a disaster. When falling on hard surfaces, it would be especially useful to have some skills in martial arts.
Japanese skydiver Yasuhiro Kubo trains like this: he throws his parachute out of the plane, and then jumps out himself. Pulling the process to the limit, he catches up with his equipment, puts on and then pulls the ring. In 2000, Kubo jumped at an altitude of 3 km and spent 50 seconds in free fall, until he caught up with his backpack with his parachute. All of these useful skills can be practiced in a safer environment, for example, in free fall simulators - vertical wind tunnels. However, simulators will not allow you to work out the most crucial stage - a meeting with the ground.
If a surface of water awaits you below, prepare for quick and decisive action. According to the surviving amateurs to jump from high bridges, we can conclude that the optimal entry into the water would be a "soldier", that is, feet first. Then you will have at least some chance of getting to the surface alive.
On the other hand, the famous cliff divers who hone their skills near Acapulco believe that it is better to enter the water head first. At the same time, they put their hands with intertwined fingers in front of the head, protecting it from impact. You can choose any of these poses, but try to maintain the parachuting position until the very last second. Then, above the water itself, if you choose to dive like a soldier, we strongly recommend that you strain your buttocks with all your might. Explaining why would not be very decent, but you will probably guess yourself.
Whatever surface is waiting for you below, in no case land on your head. Researchers from the Institute for Highway Traffic Safety have concluded that head injury is the leading cause of death in these situations. If you are still being carried head first, it is better to land on your face. It is safer than hitting the back of the head or the top of the skull.
07:02:19 Height 300 meters
If, having fallen out of the plane, you started reading this article, then by now you have come just to these lines. You already have the initial course, and now it's time to pull yourself together and focus on the task ahead of you. However, here is some additional information.
Statistics show that in the event of a disaster, it is more profitable to be a crew member or a child, and if there is a choice, it is better to crash in a military plane. Over the past 40 years, at least 12 plane crashes have been recorded, when only one person survived. On this list, four were crew members and seven were passengers under the age of 18. Among the survivors is Mohammed el-Fateh Osman, a two-year-old child who survived the crash of a Boeing in Sudan in 2003 after landing in the wreckage. Last June, when Yemenia Airways crashed near the Comoros, only 14-year-old Bahia Bakari survived.
The survival of the crew members can be associated with more reliable passive safety systems, but why more often children remain alive is not yet clear. The FAA studies show that children, especially those under the age of four, have more flexible bones, more relaxed muscles, and a higher percentage of subcutaneous fat, which effectively protects internal organs. People vertically challenged - if their head does not protrude from behind the backs of aircraft seats, they are well protected from flying debris. With a low body weight, the steady-state falling speed will also be lower, and a smaller frontal section reduces the chance of hitting when landing on any sharp object.
07:02:25 Height 0 meters
So we arrived. Hit. Are you still alive? And what are your actions? If you escaped with minor injuries, you can get up and smoke, as did the British Nicholas Alkemeid, the tail gunner, who in 1944, after falling from a six-kilometer height, landed in a snow-covered thicket. If it's no joke, then there is still a lot of trouble ahead.
Let us recall the case of Juliana Kopke. In 1971, on Christmas Eve, she flew in a Lockheed Electra. The liner exploded somewhere over the Amazon. The 17-year-old German woman regained consciousness the next morning under the canopy of the jungle. She was strapped into her seat, and there were piles of Christmas gifts lying around. Wounded, all alone, she forced herself not to think about her dead mother. Instead, she focused on the advice of her biologist father: "Once lost in the jungle, you will go out to the people, following the flow of water." Kopke walked along forest streams, which gradually merged into rivers. She walked around crocodiles and pounded in shallow water with a stick to scare away stingrays. Somewhere, having stumbled, she lost her shoe, only a torn mini-skirt remained from her clothes. She had only a bag of sweets to eat, and she had to drink dark, dirty water. She ignored the broken collarbone and the inflamed open wounds.
Today, American skydiver Luke Aikins jumped out of the plane from a height of 7.6 kilometers. He did not take the parachute with him. But after a couple of minutes, his friends and relatives were crying with joy and hugging Luke, rather than shedding tears over the cake from his body. Relive this incredible jump with an athlete again.
Now let's tell you what was behind this crazy trick.
Luke Aikins was born into a family of base jumpers and skydivers, so he began to jump with a parachute as a teenager. By now 42, he has completed about 18,000 jumps (in 30 cases he had to open a reserve parachute), trained several world famous skydivers, prepared tricks for "Iron Man - 3" and acted as a consultant.
When Luke was first asked to do this trick, he refused. Extreme frightened the prospect of leaving his wife and son without the head of the family. However, two weeks later, he woke up in the middle of the night and was determined to take the jump.
Luke Aikens before the jump: “This is a calculated risk, we have checked everything many times, there is science behind me. Science and mathematics are with me. We will show what is really possible. "
The jump was prepared for about two years by several dozen people, including engineers, technicians and hundreds of dummies dropped from the sky.
Aikins jumped from a single-engine plane. Due to its low horizontal speed, it was possible to determine as accurately as possible the point at which the athlete needed to leave the board.
In the first phase of the flight, Aikins was accompanied by three paratroopers who filmed the jump, carried a supply of oxygen with them and, probably, would have saved the extreme if it had been blown off the trajectory. On footage, Aikins can be seen giving one of them an oxygen mask at an altitude of 4.5 kilometers.
The landing net is 30 x 30 meters. It was suspended 20 stories high. There was only earth and sand under it and around. The technicians used fasteners that released the tension on the net the moment the athlete touched it.
In order for Aikins to see the landing point during the flight, 4 directional lamps were installed on the sides of the net. When Luke was on the correct trajectory, he saw white light from them. If he saw a red light, then the trajectory is wrong, it needs to be urgently corrected.
The skydiver had to turn onto his back a second before landing. If he landed on his stomach, he would almost certainly be seriously injured. If he rolled over ahead of time, he would lose sight of the net and most likely missed. It was this pre-landing flip that Aikins rehearsed several times during the flight.
Luke Aikins after landing: “I was like levitating like a saint or a monk. It's incredible, wonderful. I cannot convey everything in words. Thanks to the guys who helped me. This is amazing!