gmb45
18th May, 2009, 08:06 AM
SKYDIVER James Boole told yesterday how he plunged into a mountainside from 6,000ft without a parachute.
James, 31, said he felt like he?d been ?hit by a speeding truck? after landing on the snow-covered rocks at 100mph.
But amazingly he lived despite suffering a broken back and rib, a bruised lung and chipped teeth.
He had been filming another skydiver falling for a TV documentary in Russia.
The other man was meant to signal how close he was to the ground, but he was too late and gave James two seconds to open his chute.
Dad-of-one James, of Tamworth, Staffs, said: ?I was screaming in pain, coughing up blood.
"I was very worried I?d got internal injuries and I might be dying. I thought about telling someone my last words.?
He was rescued and taken to hospital in Moscow, where he was put in a body brace before flying home.
James added: ?People say it all the time, but I feel like the luckiest man in the world.? YouTube - I fell 6,000ft, forgot my chute and lived by gmb46
James, 31, said he felt like he?d been ?hit by a speeding truck? after landing on the snow-covered rocks at 100mph.
But amazingly he lived despite suffering a broken back and rib, a bruised lung and chipped teeth.
He had been filming another skydiver falling for a TV documentary in Russia.
The other man was meant to signal how close he was to the ground, but he was too late and gave James two seconds to open his chute.
Dad-of-one James, of Tamworth, Staffs, said: ?I was screaming in pain, coughing up blood.
"I was very worried I?d got internal injuries and I might be dying. I thought about telling someone my last words.?
He was rescued and taken to hospital in Moscow, where he was put in a body brace before flying home.
James added: ?People say it all the time, but I feel like the luckiest man in the world.? YouTube - I fell 6,000ft, forgot my chute and lived by gmb46