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Good-bye. >> a fellow sky diver's cell phone records stapleton as he plummets to earth. hanson races to her friend. >> don't move, craig. don't 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 internal injuries? >> i'm allergic to penicillin and iodine. >> are you allergic to morphine? >> no. the first person to get to me was katie. and relief in her voice, i could

>> she won't be so intimidated that they can't think and can't 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 it's the first time for hanson. >> there is a learning curve where you have to figure out what could possibly be going wrong. >> at 8,000 feet, they start their high-stakes stunt, tethering themselves together with both chutes open. >> i've a...

Hour to the ground. >> i released my end of the flag, so the problem became just craig's and then i started just following him down. >> stapleton manages to free his arm and release the flag, but he's losing altitude and hope fast. >> now i'm down to one problem. i have a malfunctioning parachute. skydivers are trained from jump oun how to deal with a malfunction. >> the primary parachute was jammed. so the only way to cut it loose is to set it free. he can't get to the knife had his leg pocket. >> i put part of it in my teeth and was trying to hold tension and i couldn't do it. >> fighting de...

♪ >> a skydiver is running out of time. and altitude. >> i can see my altim ter going to 2,000 feet into the red zone. >> the only two things that separate him from almost uncertain death. >> this was 100% unprecedented for me and unimaginable. >> the parachute center and ocampo, california, is open for business, weather permitting, 365 days a year. world championship skydiver craig stapleton, has more than 7,000 jumps under his belt. >> everything can happen in a split second. it can all change in a moment's notice. you've got to be ready. you've got to be on the edge. >> stapleton is one o...

Involving risky maneuver, homeding on to another jumper's shoot in mid-air. >> on this day his partner is a daredevil in her own right. >> she's the kind of person to take it on. >> craig and i jump together all the time. >> march 10th, 2013. hanson's recording their jump on her helmet cam. >> everybody has cameras. this is skydiving. >> stapleton and hanson are a good team with more than 11,000 jumps between them. stapleton has done this stunned they're about to tackle before, but it's the first time for hanson. >> there's like a learning curve where you actually have to figure out what could...