Skydiver to land in net, no parachute.

Tim Fred

Now they say he is forced to wear a chute (as a back-up.)
I think it was planned all along. Viewers to be ****.

Jonsredfishin

I concur.

Tim Fred

Well..... He did it.
I was skeptical the whole time, expected some trickery or cancellation.

Finger Mullet

I heard about this on the net, jumping out of a perfectly good plane then attempting to land on a net of some sort. Well I have done some crazy sheet in my day, but that is a winner, backup parachute or not.

JKP

Supposedly ditched the backup chute because he feared it would get caught in net and hurt him.

mindyabiness

Luke Aikins successfully jumped from 25,000 ft with no parachute, into a net!


[video]https://youtu.be/aOBavry0K2E[/video]

Did not look perfect from here....looked kind of close to edge to me.

chronicbreak

ha! My wife almost divorced me when I jumped from a plane and this guy did it with no chute and probably got some that night...

Finger Mullet

Mindy, cool Ytube link, I have only jumped from a plane twice and it was close to the ground and shoot opened immediately, those guys are insane, that was nuts.

Tim Fred

They certainly planned it well enough for success. I am curious about what the network's plan was in case he splattered. Maybe the broadcast had a delay of several seconds so it could go to a commercial. Would the commentator have a prepared script to explain the tragedy?

FLATS BROKE

Nucking Futs man!

FibberMckee

Better news than the career alcoholic balloon operator, who crashed into high voltage power lines, killing all 16 on board!