a lot of things were going through my head. mainly just make it through this. get the parachute out, 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. >> if i open my parachute and 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. luckily, i took the impact to my back, where i was wearing full-body armor and a big spine protector, but i hit with such force, i knew that something could be potentially wrong.