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Land it. meanwhile, the skydivers follow their training and try to fly themselves out of the way of the debris and each other. they track away as they have practiced in the past. they lie flat to gain speeds of more than 100 miles per hour. >> it's confusing. you know that there's debris above you so there's risk of debris falling on you. my reaction was to get as far away from the collision as possible to make sure that my parachute opens in as clean airspace as possible but also trying to make sure that you're not following the same path as other skydivers. >> they're also concerned for matt...

Happened to catch me at the wrong time. i had to make some really fast decisions. and obviously, it didn't pan out the way i wanted it to. i was hoping to miss it, but i didn't miss the trailer. >> april 30, 2011. high above colorado's fremont county airport sky diving instructor tommy ferguson is preparing for his third and final jump of the day. >> i had already put out two loads of students. the day was going great. this was my third jump that day. i tell the other two jumpers that i will film them coming out. >> ferguson gets out on the strut of the plane to capture the other sky divers as...

An international team of skydivers took a world record to you could say new heights. 164 brave jumpers built the largest-ever vertical skydiving formation on friday. you see it here. holding together a giant flower. for several seconds. let's watch this. before they all broke away. it took the team 13 attempts to beat the 2012 record that was set by 138 other skydivers. that's amazing. we leave you with that and we thank you for watching this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. for our viewers in the united states "cnn new day" is next. for everyone else a...

But he's losing all altitude, and hope, fast. >> now i'm 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 can't reach. >> i couldn't do it. >> fighting desperately for his life, stapleton is down to his last resort. >> i was 20 seconds from being laying dead in a field. i stopped doing what i was doing, and i fired my reserve. >> i w...

I think that this is definitely it's a good thing for the transgender community and for lgbt people overall and america. i think it just shows we are a lot more multifaceted and diverse and wonderful as human beings just -- i think it just shows more of the view of the american people and how diverse we are. and at the end of the day how accepting we really are. freedom and liberty is what we stand for. >> kristin beck thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> an enlightening conversation there. sky divers are supposed to remember the jump not the emergency landing. next why a pilot tried to l...