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October 1994, 18,000 feet above davis, california a group of skydivers is determined to make it into the record books. their goal? build a 46 parachute diamond or canopy and then separate and land safely. it will hold eight more skydivers than the world's best of eight. this morning is their last test before the next day's big jump. skydiving cameraman, brian scott, tapes the practice session. the skydivers will use the tape later to analyze the jump. >> canopy formation is multiple parachuters flying together in formation. the person on top will grab the parachute. he will put a foot in the l...

Control, 9,000 feet above the ground. and alan has another problem. the lines of the other man's chute is wrapped around his neck. >> it's what we call a wrap. your parachute is open but somebody else's parachute is wrapped around you. in that case, the person who has the parachute wrapped and you, they need to go into free fall and that takes the tension off. >> falling at nearly 50 miles an hour, the skydivers have less than two minutes before they hit the ground. the first guy manages to break free but his parachute remains behind, its lines still wrapped around alan's neck. >> the parachut...

Has only one option. cut the other skydivers chute line but as he does that it causes another problem. >> once alan cut the line, the other parachute started spinning. now it's wrapping alan's parachute lines up into a coil. >> alan's chute was spinning out of control and time was running out. >> i didn't know if alan was going to make it. i had never seen anything that violent before. i knew we were getting quite low and i could see the numbers on the runway. i thought he was the way i watched him through this ordeal. >> with the lines twisted so thick and tight, alan's problems go from bad t...

Wrapped around his neck. >> in that case, the person who has the parachute wrapped and you, they need to go into free fall and that takes the tension off. >> falling at nearly 50 miles an hour, the skydivers have less than two minutes before they hit the ground. the parachute remains behind and wrapped around alan's neck. >> the parachute's line has wrapped around him twice. the tension stayed on him when he cut away. the parachute was still partially opened and wrapped around alan so it was pulling those lines tight like a chinese finger trap. it sticks to you. >> with time running out, alan

Leads to, yet, another problem. >> once alan cut the line, the other parachute started spinning. because it was no long her a flight configuration. one side was cut leak and more and more was cut loose. now it's wrapping alan's parachute lines up into a coil. it was tying a rope. >> alan is spinning out of control and time is running out. >> i didn't know if alan was going to make it. i had never seen anything that violent before. i knew we were getting quite low and we were right over the airport. and i could see the numbers on the runway. i thought he was going to go in. i watched him throug...