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Still hear it in her voice, oh, my gosh, you are still alive. >> stapleton is rushed to the hospital. and, defying all odds, he is released that night with no broken bones and only minor bruises. >> at 7:00 p.m. that night, i walked out of the hospital room. >> in the hospital parking lot, friends are waiting to celebrate. >> it was probably the best sunset ive ever seen. >> it turns out stapleton may owe his life to the one row of freshly plowed dirt that helped to soften his 8,000-foot fall. >...

>> stapleton manages to free his arms and release the flag. but hes losing all altitude, and hope, fast. >> now im down to one problem. i have a malfunctioned parachute. sky divers are trained from jump one how to deal with a malfunctioned parachute. you reach down and pull the handle and release the parachute. >> the handle is jammed, so the only way to release the chute is to cut it free. but he is spinning so violently he cant get to the lead knife in his pocket. >> i couldnt do it. >> fighti...

>> he lowered down the tether. all i had to do was clip it in. >> then, in the most delicate part of the maneuver, they separate, and start to unfurl a huge american flag, which isnt seen yet on camera. >> its like flying in a hurricane. its 80 miles an hour straight at the ground. >> but something goes terribly wrong. stapleton gets his foot tangled in his lines, partially collapsing his parachute. >> at first im thinking, oh, man, im such an idiot. he cant believe i let this happen. my parachu...

A sky diver is running out of time, and altitude. >> i could see my altimeter going into the red zone. >> the only two things that separate him from almost certain death. >> this was 100% unprecedented for me, and unimaginable. ♪ >> the parachute center in encampo, california, is open for business, weather permitting, 365 days a year. world championship sky driver greg stapleton has more than 7,000 jumps under his belt. >> everything can happen in a split second. it can all change in a moments...

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...

>> today his partner is katie hanson. a daredevil in her own right. >> she wont be so intimidated that they cant think and cant do. >> craig and i jump together all the time. >> hanson is recording their jump on her helmet cam. >> everybody has cameras. this is sky diving. >> stapleton and hanson are a good team with more than 11,000 jumps between them. stapleton has done this stunt they are about to tackle before, but its the first time for hanson. >> there is a learning curve where you have to...

But hes losing all altitude, and hope, fast. >> now im down to one problem. i have a malfunctioned parachute. sky divers are trained from jump one how to deal with a malfunctioned parachute. you reach down and pull the handle and release the parachute. >> the handle is jammed, so the only way to release the chute is to cut it free. but he is spinning so violently he cant reach. >> i couldnt do it. >> fighting desperately for his life, stapleton is down to his last resort. >> i was 20 seconds fro...

A sky diver is running out of time, and altitude. >> i could see my altimeter going into the red zone. >> the only two things that separate him from almost certain death. >> this was 100% unprecedented for me, and unimaginable. ♪ >> the parachute center in encampo, california, is open for business, weather permitting, 365 days a year. world championship sky driver greg stapleton has more than 7,000 jumps under his belt. >> everything can happen in a split second. it can all change in a moments...