Top 10 Survivors After Accident During Parachute Jump
Actually, skydiving is relatively safe. According to most sources, the fatal end (on average) about 30 out of 100,000 jumps. People are more likely to die in a car accident than by parachute. For a clearer comparison, diving deaths on average more - about 47 out of 100,000 dives.
It is believed that the chances of break, jumping out of serviceable aircraft, you have just as much as swimming in shark-infested water. However, every year hundreds of thousands of people jumping from the plane - professionally, for fun and participation in competitions - and the vast majority of land has reached safely in one piece. While in parachute jumping, there is one little point: when something did go wrong, as it should - the parachute did not open or detect similar problems - you do not have much options. Rush to the ground at a speed exceeding 100 miles per hour ... well, you can imagine what it is likely to end. Surprisingly, not every accident in skydiving ending pile of bloody, broken body parts. In fact, there are quite a few people who survived harrowing incidents in the air:
