Imagine Jumping Out of a Plane After This...😳
Mike Rowe documents a skydiving experience with the Golden Knights where he witnesses a serious accident involving a jumper hitting the ground at 35 mph with a broken femur, then subsequently injures himself during his own jump landing on pavement and tearing his knee.
Summary
Mike Rowe participates in a skydiving jump with the Golden Knights, an elite skydiving team that performs 8-12 jumps daily. During the event, Rowe witnesses a dangerous incident where one of the seven skydivers coming in at terminal velocity pulls up short and crashes into the ground at approximately 35 mph, resulting in a fractured femur and loss of consciousness. The jumper is quickly transported via ambulance. When Rowe completes his own jump, he misses his landing mark by about 10 feet and lands on asphalt instead of the intended landing zone. The impact causes him to stumble, resulting in a torn jumpsuit and a scraped knee. The injured jumper's fellow team members are reportedly mortified about the accident occurring in front of Rowe. Rowe responds with empathy and humor by sending the injured jumper a photo of himself sitting on a curb showing his own knee injury with a thumbs up gesture and a caption indicating shared commiseration about the accidents.
Key Insights
- The Golden Knights perform frequent skydiving operations, completing 8, 10, sometimes 12 jumps per day as part of their professional duties
- A skydiver crashed at 35 mph after pulling up short during a landing, resulting in a broken femur and unconsciousness requiring immediate ambulance transport
- Rowe missed his own landing mark by approximately 10 feet and landed on asphalt (macadam) instead of the intended landing zone
- The injured jumper's team members felt embarrassed that the accident happened in front of Mike Rowe, suggesting concern about reputation or performance in front of an observer
- Rowe responded to the injured jumper's mortification by sending a humorous photo of his own injury with a sympathetic message, using humor to build camaraderie after the accidents
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Transcript
[0:00] I jump with the Golden Knights. These guys jump 8, 10, sometimes 12 times a day. I'm standing there and I turn to the camera. Meanwhile, these guys are terminal velocity. They're coming in hot, head high, right next to me. Seven of them come by. Eighth one pulls up a little short. Hits the ground about 35 mph. He's unconscious and his femur's clean in half. They get him in an ambulance and he's gone. I jump out of the plane with the Golden Knights. I missed my mark by like 10 ft and actually landed on the Macadam and I stumbled and I tore my jumpsuit skin my knee. The guy who jumped, his buddies [0:30] were…
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