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That my feet are actually on her shoulders. i'm already down above her. >> 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 isn't seen yet on camera. >> it's like flying in a hurricane. it's 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 i'm thinking, oh, man, i'm such an idiot. he can't believe i let this happen. my parachute started spinning, a...

Formation sky diving with their parachute open. >> today his partner is katie hanson. >> 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 t...

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 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 morphi...

And relief in her voice, i could 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 i've 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. >> so i landed right about here in front of one of these plants. >> five ...

Formation sky diving with their parachute open. >> today his partner is katie hanson. a dare devil in her own right. >> she won't be so intimidated that they can't think and can't do. >> craig and i jump together all the time. >> march 10th, 2013. >> 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 pos...