I have a kind of obsession with human mortality as it deals with the ability to survive being hit by a car and falling from great heights.
Did some research and it seems that most people wont survive a fall from above 30 feet.
More to do with insufficient time to prepare for and brace the fall than the actuall height.
THen there are those who free fall from planes, parachutes fail, and survive.
http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/unlucky.htmlthis website has alot of examples
and one of the most famous of fallers, survived from falling 18 000 feet
he attributed his survival to the fact he had so much time to plan for and prepare for his landing.
Staying positive and deciding he was going to land and going to make it.
This just blows my mind
wow look at this one!!
Juliane Koepcke On Christmas Eve of 1971, a commercial airliner over Peru was struck by lightning and broke up during a storm. A teenage girl, Juliane Koepcke, fell two miles, still strapped in her seat. She survived, but her ordeal had just begun. Despite a broken collarbone and other injuries, she walked for 11 days through the Amazon rain forest and finally found help. Her story has been the subject of two films, the most recent being a Werner Herzog documentary called Wings of Hope. (See
www.wernerherzog.com for more details.)
