Incredible Vid: Base Jumper Survives 400-Foot Crash Into Snow After Parachute Fails to Open
- Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:24pm by
Liz Klimas
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Earlier this year, a Russian man jumped from an electrical tower 400 feet high. Deploying his parachute only a few seconds after the jump, it quickly becomes apparent, that something was wrong.
In the footage taken from the event in March, which was just recently released, you can see that the parachute doesn’t open properly. A few seconds later, he inevitably lands on the snow-covered ground. A puff of white is all you see. Amazingly though, he lived.
(Image: Live Leak Screenshot)
(Image: Live Leak Screenshot)
(Image: Live Leak Screenshot)
According to the CBS report, the parachutist suffered a concussion, broken pelvis and spinal injury, but apparently is walking again as of late.
Watch the clip for yourself:
Live Leak states that the victim of the fall was a 28-year-old named Ivan. The electrical pole was near the village of Glinka Konakovo district. After the fall, Ivan was rushed to a hospital in Konakovo in a very serious condition.
Here’s more complete footage of the events leading up to and including the fall from Live Leak:
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kenboo1
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:10pmOK Im sold on Obamacare now… This is the Russian Healthcare system at work… Here in America this would be self correcting… But in Russia, they have super health care. They are able to produce complete morons that survive amazing feats of physical strength and stamina… They don’t have to work, they just strap on a razor thin parachute and jump off a 400 foot tower. Even though the chute didn’t deploy, the moron survived… What a country!!! I’m moving to Russia… Oh, they just say he survived. We haven’t seen a picture of him since his jump!!! The movie was taken in March… He should be getting out of his body cast before too long…
Report Post »gr8t2bfree
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 5:53pmThis clown never jumped before. You always jump and keep your stomach to the ground. This clown does a summer-salt and keeps his back to the ground blocking the pilot chute from opening the main chute. Idiot extraordinaire!
Report Post »inferno
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 4:19pmHow do you fall 400 feet and survive ? You fall very, very sllllloooowwwwlllly !
Report Post »inferno
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 4:15pmHow do you fall 400 feet and live ????Verry, very, very slooooowllllly !
Report Post »AzThunder
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 2:53pmTry that here in AZ with our hard ground, he would become a flounder
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:47pmDo you know what the last thing to go through that guy’s mind was when he hit the ground?
His *ss
Report Post »KoolAidDrinker
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:44amAnchor asks, “How do you fall 400′ and survive?’
Answer: Plenty of Vodka!
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 11:50amI wonder if he had free healthcare?
Report Post »FlatFoot
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 1:25pmCon! Sonar! — CRAZY IVAN !!!
Report Post »mauserbob
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:39pmEXACTLY like Wylie Coyote !! PIFF ! LOL ! Glad He’s alive though.
Report Post »Sayyadina
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:47pmThat’s is exactly what I thought!
Report Post »Sayyadina
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:53pmThat is exactly what I thought, “oh hey, there there is the impact “poof” of dust, just like the cartoons…”
Report Post »KoolAidDrinker
Posted on July 6, 2012 at 9:50amKomrade! For 500 Rubles, you too can have the latest in post Soviet daredevil equipment. Just go to http://www.ACME.com. And in no time you to can fly like this idiot.
Report Post »Ozonekiller
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 6:34pmYeah, the long pause by the friend was priceless…waiting..wondering. And I assume he followed instead of climbing back down. It reminded me of a time about ten years ago when video-chatting was fairly new and I was chatting with a girl on camera, well she was eating potato chips and started choking… It was a very helpless deer-in headlights feeling. So I just logged out.
Report Post »rs9
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:45pmhey moron you put the drough chute in your hand BRFORE you jump the main chute does not have time to open when you pull on the hway down
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:19pmThe Darwin awards lost a potential nominee…
Glad he lived…. Sorry that he was stupid enough to chase a dangerous thrill….
Much akin to placing your head in a Tigers mouth, and expecting it not to bite down… 9 times out of 10, still means that 1 time out of 10… you die…
Report Post »oeaoho
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:17pmMade in China.
Report Post »TurkE
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:49pmThe only safe thing this guy did was jump from a Russian electrical tower…there most likely wasn’t any power running through it. BTW I think I saw an anvil come out of the backpack he was wearing.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:26pm+1 for that comment.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:19pmAnother Road Runner cartoon? That was funny. The impact was the funnest thing I’ve seen in years!!!
Report Post »Marine308
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:34pmHe needs to send that chute back to Acme chute company for a full refund!
Report Post »HumbleMan
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:01pmmeep meep.
Report Post »TheBurningTruth
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:19pmThis was a BASE jumper, NOT a “parachutist”. He used Base gear (you can see that from the rig) but HE made the rookie mistake (don’t know if he WAS a rookie) of jumping DOWN instead of up and away. He did a front-loop but doesn’t have time to complete it when he has to dump the pilot chute on his back. At his low airspeed, the pilot chute doesn’t have the drag necessary to open the container and extract the canopy. Note that most low-pull base rigs are free-packed, with means the parachute is NOT in a deployment bag, just carefully folded inside the container. So, the most reasonable explanation is that the bridle either snagged on something (one is supposed to be face-to-earth at deployment after all) or the friction on the bridle going past the container and through his legs (it WAS a front loop) was just too much at that slow airspeed.
I had a friend that did a base jump of the Antioch bridge in the SF Bay area. The bridge is 130ft high, and he held the whole damn main folded in his hand, tossing it as he jumped. It finished opening as he splashed down into the water. We all throught he’d die doing this, but it turns out he died in an plane crash of a WW2 plane doing aerobatics it wasn’t designed for. Scratch another!
Report Post »guz75
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:19pmDefinitely his first jump; didn’t push off properly, flipped over and then has to open his shoot while the wrong way up. You have to work your way up to base jumping, his whole technique (or lack of) suggests he didn’t even bother starting with the skydiving. Muppet!
Report Post »BattleJosh
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:10pmExtreme Snow Angel..?
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:47pmShould have bought the deluxe model
Report Post »shakedowncrews
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:47pmFunny that his friend didn’t say a word until long after he hit the ground. I bet that was Russian for “Oh shizzle.” Stupid is as stupid does. How long before this guy goes back out to try again?
Report Post »Steve28
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:42pmThat is one of those OH F moments. Did we tell you this was kind of dangerous?
Report Post »bobbyjoe
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:40pmgravity sucks
Report Post »libertyordeath87
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:36pmDarwin was cheated out of this one.
Report Post »fiveft15
Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:35pmWhat an idiot!
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