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Dramatic moment unconscious skydiver rescued mid-air captured on helmet camera

This is the terrifying moment a skydiver was left plummeting 12,500ft to the ground after he was knocked out in a skydiving accident

James Lee, 25 was taking part in a jump in Wiltshire when just seconds after leaping from the plane he was hit on the back of the head by another skydiver.

The blow knocked him out and sent him hurtling towards the ground uncontrollably.

Luckily two other skydivers noticed something was wrong and chased after their unconscious colleague.

After realising he was unresponsive the two men managed to roll James into a more stable position and deploy his parachute for a safe landing.

It wasn't until James was under the canopy that he began to regain consciousness, he landed safely on the ground with no memory of the drama that had unfolded seconds earlier.

The mid-air drama was captured by a camera on James' helmet.

Looking back at the footage, the veteran jumper, who was on his 1050th jump at the time of the accident, describes the rescue:

"At first the other skydivers give basic hand signals that we teach our students with to correct their body position and find I am still not responding.

"They manage to get hold of me to try and stop my body tumbling again as we get closer to the altitude where, as a group we separate to deploy our parachutes.

"They signal to the other jumpers to get away as they were unaware of what was happening. They then deploy my main parachute. Once I was clear they deployed their own."

After landing, James was taken to hospital for his head injury and was given the all clear. And despite his near-death experience the thrill seeker said he has no plans to give up skydiving.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...n-helmet-camera.html

 

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Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Originally Posted by El Loro:

Roger, I've edited your post as there was a blank space where the video should have been. So I've inserted the same video from Youtube.

 

   Many thanks El Loro  

Videos never work when I embed them. Thank God there's someone capable about 

 You didn't do anything wrong, there's quite a few websites with videos which can't be embedded on this forum such as the BBC website. So then the only way is to see if it's been posted on something like Youtube.

 

El Loro

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