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>> once alan cut the line, the other parachute started spinning. it was no longer in a flight configuration. one side was cut loose and more and more got cut loose and spinning more and more. 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 we were right toefr airport. i could see the numbers on the runway. i thought he was the way i watched him through this ordeal. >> with the lines twis...

>> this is what we call a wrap. your parachute is open, but someone else's is wrapped around you. in that case, the person who has the parachute wrapped around you needs to pull and go freestyle. >> falling at nearly 50 miles an hour, the skydivers have less than two minutes before they hit the ground. the first guy breaks free, but his parachute remains behind and still 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...

Hook knife and i think alan had a knife that was already in his rig. it was kind of like on his harness right here. but it was plastic. i bought him a better knife. it was just a present to my buddy the day before. >> with his new knife, alan finally frees himself of both chutes. now in free fall, he has less than ten seconds until impact. >> we were under 1 rk,000 feet. then i saw the pilot chute come out. he pulled out of that at about 700 feet. >> with little time to spare, he coasts to a landing completely unscathed. luckily his reserve chute deployed even though he was so close to the gro...

Which he wouldn't have been carrying that day if it hadn't been for his friend brian scott. >> the day before i went to the pro shop and bought him a metal hook knife and i think alan had a knife that was already in his rig. it was kind of like on his harness right here. but it was plastic. i bought him a better knife. it was just a present to my buddy the day before. >> with his new knife, alan finally frees himself of both chutes. now in free fall, he has less than ten seconds until impact. >> we were under 1,000 feet. he had pulled out of that. >> with little time to spare, he coasts to a l...

It sticks to you. >> with time running out, alan 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. did was tieing a rope. >> 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 going to go in. that's really the way i felt a...