CNN EarlyStart March 14, 2013 09:14:00
Caught on camera, is speaking out. on sunday, craig stapleton's main chute gets tangled up while diving over ell campo, california. his backup begins to spin. he hits the ground at an amazing 30 miles per hour. it's just a few feet from iron stakes that hold up the grapevines of a local vineyard. >> i landed parallel to the grapes. one of my last thoughts before i hit was, i hope i don't hit an iron spike because it would just be messy. i knew it was bad when i was living it. and when i saw the video, it was like, wow, that's a lot worse than i thought. how did i walk away from that? how did i...