facedown for a safe shoot deployment, but he doesn't have enough time. >> i was definitely very scared. as i started to overrotate the trick, i knew was going to eat up precious time and needed to get things figured out quickly. a lot of things were going through my head. mainly just make it through this. get through this. get the parachute out, you got it, you got it, live, live, live. >> with his safe landing window closing in fractions of a second, ted successfully rotates his body face down. but it's too late. >> i open my parachute, i mean, right then the ground was coming at me incredibly fast. i was pretty sure that this was going to end badly. right as the ground is coming right up to me, bang, my parachute opened. within one second, bang, i hit the ground.