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Man Survives 15,000-Foot Fall After Parachute Malfunctions

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    National Geographic producer Pat Rogers on amazing survival story

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-- story is hard to wrap your mind around folks imagine jumping out of a plane at 151000.

Feet that's enough for me right there.

And your parachute then malfunctions.

No one is supposed to survive a fall like this with no parachute but skydiver Michael Holmes did.

And if this isn't dizzying -- check out his final descent before impact all caught on camera watch.

Us.

-- why she's she's playing for the hopelessly toward the ground.

Michael to lose his home.

Rogers is this series producer for this -- show called the indestructible that airs on National Geographic channel.

Pat welcome good to have you here boy had to be here.

So.

Yet to put my days in what happened and how on earth did He survive this -- Well it is hard to imagine anybody living through a 151000.

That's about three mile.

Fault his parachute failed to open is back up parachute failed to open until just at the last second and slowed him down just enough.

To Alter the course of his dissent.

To take him away from where it was headed which was far worse -- parking lot into this stand of trees.

And that also allowed him to land in a different -- slowed him down just a little bit and altered the landing.

To sort of take his vertical force if He had landed just -- on his feet or on his head.

It would have been lights out.

But He rolled -- to sort of a four point horizontal role.

And the energy from the crash was moralist dissipated during the course of that -- it's certainly doesn't look survivable.

But it was fine.

Believe the ball and didn't hear his voice He says this is that at one point how did you find him He has figured this show -- -- as serious of these kinds it.

Accidents that people survived you know beyond reason I.

Yes there are ten people that we feature on indestructible all of them have.

Similar sort of catastrophic accidents or animal attacks or some thing.

That should not be survivable you watch these bits of tape you watch this film and you say.

There is no way this person survive but each and every one of them did it.

And what we do is we take a look at the reasons behind the survival how.

Does somebody survive eleven minutes.

In the lion's -- being mauled by two lines how does somebody survive a 108 mile an hour crash into a bridge about it and we sort of break down.

The what looks impossible in sort of look at the science and all of a sudden it becomes possible.

I just have but just a few seconds left but I I'm interested in that emotional impact.

That these events -- -- people's lives you address that Michelle.

Oh a 100% that's one of the main elements of the show is what how did this happen how did it affect their lives how -- live with it to this day.

And today just like we are intensely curious about how they survived and we try to answer some of those questions for the.

Happy you know I mean at the book looking at this spiral again which is it's crazy it's incredible and it looked like somebody else jumped out with -- and -- -- -- she went -- right.

And He was also on that same -- and his did not and it's it's an incredible story pat Rogers.

We're gonna Election Day is everything you guys do it looks amazing thank you -- -- in its attempt that.

Sunday -- at -- that's exactly is gonna say thank you -- that's eastern and Pacific Sunday -- -- ten none other than the National Geographic channel in just doubles.

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