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Im at 1200 feet and i have got a few seconds to think about what is important and say good-bye. >> a fellow sky divers cell phone records stapleton as he plummets to earth. hanson races to her friend. >> dont move, craig. dont move. >> i was 100% sure that he was dead. >> hanson drops her helmet cam to the ground. >> what is your name? >> craig stapleton. >> where are you? >> the drop zone in the [ bleep ] wine field. >> amazing, stapleton is breathing and conscious. but does he have lethal inte...

Pants-ruining fear and ponder the reality of the actual job. im thinking about the men in 101st airborne over normandy. those guys jumped in the dark, surrounded by exploding ordnance. most of them didnt land anywhere near their intended drop zone and most were killed before they even hit the ground. today our men and women are still at it, still jumping head long into clear and present danger. if they can do that, the least i can do is this.

Plane. he sales over flat land. looks like nothing could possibly go wrong. >> the instructor floats towards the drop zone, an open field. the only object in sight, a trailer used to pick up the jumpers. >> it was like the moth to the flame. he was just drawn to that trailer. it was like, come on. theres a whole field. really hes going to hit that? >> hit it, he does. the sky diver injures his arm and eventually is amputated. but it hasnt stopped him from sky diving again. >> ive never been sky ...

The whole time. im thinking, im not going to make it back. i look down. maybe i should just land there. >> ferguson decides to land about 80 yards north of his intended target until a sudden burst of wind knocks him back on course. >> all of a sudden, it was like i got a big gust of wind from my backside. almost like a downdraft. like just pushing down on me. >> ferguson is heading directly for the trailer, parked inside the drop zone, which is used to pick up jumpers once they land. >> i got fi...

Attention to the safety of his team members who start re-forms around him. >> i need to make sure i am aiming myself back towards the drop zone to make sure im safe and to make sure everybody else gets back. i consider that my responsibility as the person on the bottom. >> but as quickly as bland reorients himself, unbelievably, it happens again. another pocket of dead air, and another midair collision. this time, two different wing-suit fliers. as they tumble in the sky, the team reaches 5,000 ...

Its gorgeous down there. the beaches are beautiful. the water is beautiful. and the sky diving is terrific. >> their team has been jumping out of planes all morning. on their fifth jump of the day, they decide to ratchet up the adrenaline to try one of the most dangerous formations a flock can perform. its called the stack. >> stacking is basically when you get a number of wing suiters actually flying one over top of the other. you can only see whats in front of your eyes. so you have a hard tim...

Pat houston to be put on that guest list. brown died on sunday during hospice care will be buried on monday alongside her mother at cemetery up here in new jersey. its a bird, its a plane, its a record-setting sky dive. 164 skydivers joining together over central illinois to form the largest ever vertical sky difing formation. the new record smashing the old one of 138 divers. the formation resembling a giant flower floated above the rural drop zone before those divers broke away and then open...

Fall. >> i am at 500 feet, and i have got a few seconds to think about what is important and say good-bye. >> a fellow sky divers cell phone records stapleton as he plummets to earth. hanson races to her friend. >> dont move, craig. dont move. >> i was 100% sure that he was dead. >> hanson drops her helmet cam to the ground. >> what is your name? >> craig stapleton. >> where are you? >> the drop zone in the [ bleep ] wine field. >> amazing, stapleton is breathing and conscious. but does he have ...

Is so tangled, it cant help the primary chute slow down his fall. >> im at 1200 feet and got a few seconds to think about whats important and say good-bye. >> about to land in a vineyard where metal stakes can be lethal, a fellow sky drivers cell phone records stapleton as he plummets to earth. hanson races to her friend. >> dont move, craig. dont move. >> i was 100% sure that he was dead. >> hanson drops her helmet cam to the ground. >> what is your name? >> craig stapleton. >> where are you? >...

Around him. >> i need to make sure i am aiming myself back towards the drop zone to make sure im safe and to make sure everybody else gets back. i consider that my responsibility as the person on the bottom. >> but as quickly as bland reorients himself, unbelievably, it happens again. another pocket of dead air, and another midair collision. this time, two different wing-suit fliers. as they tumble in the sky, the team reaches 5,000 feet and bland signals to pull their parachutes, unsure if ever...