A 35-year-old skydiver fell nearly two miles while knocked unconscious, crashed through a conifer tree, and walked away alive, and now says she cannot wait to jump again. Holly Wiffen was on her fourth jump of the day at Langar airfield near Nottingham, England, on August 7 when a fellow skydiver's shin struck the back […] The post British skydiver survives 10,000-foot unconscious freefall after mid-air collision appeared first on American Almanac .
A 35-year-old skydiver fell nearly two miles while knocked unconscious, crashed through a conifer tree, and walked away alive, and now says she cannot wait to jump again. Holly Wiffen was on her fourth jump of the day at Langar airfield near Nottingham, England, on August 7 when a fellow skydiver's shin struck the back of her helmet at roughly 100 miles per hour. The blow knocked her out cold, smashed the GoPro camera off her helmet, and sent her tumbling earthward from approximately 12,000 feet with no one at the controls. She plummeted at 150 mph for roughly 10,000 feet, unconscious the entire way, before somehow pulling her ripcord at an estimated 1,000 feet, about five seconds before she would have hit the ground. But the ordeal was…Open
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