Itīs the worst of nightmares. You jump from an airplane with a parachute on your back, pull the ripcord and - nothing happens. The parachute fails to open and you are rushing towards the earth at one hundred miles an hour.
Dead Menīs Tales recreates six of the skyīs great escape stories when the nightmare really happened - and the parachutists survived. Except you wonīt believe you are watching a recreation.
Mandy & Leo Dickinson film these terrifying moments so expertly you will truly believe that you have an insiderīs view of what itīs like to stare death in the face.
Contents:
1. Dolly Shepherdīs double rescue jump from a balloon (1908).
2. A jumper keeps hanging in the door of a DC-3 right after the exit - and until landing.
3. Entanglement of 2 canopies during CRW, one jumper breaks away from his main canopy pretty low and opens his reserve which inflates right before he is standing in someones garden and is invited for a cup of tea.
4. After a collision during freefall, a female jumper gets unconscious. The experienced instructor follows her and opens her parachute.
5. A Cessna-pilot and a jumpmaster are going to solve a student-in-tow situation in a dramatic action.
6. After a horseshoe-malfunction a jumper releases his reserve which entangles with the main. He crashes into a tree with a streamer and survives this high speed impact severely injured.

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