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>> the very next day, the team breaks the word record for canopy formation. one of those skydivers? alan. coming up, rescuers spot a man whose time was running out. >> he was in the midst of it and i knew he wasn't doing well. >> when "caught on camera: what went wrong" continues. i've never seen swanything so soft!tness... charmin! take a closer look at charmin ultra soft
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. i saw the pilot chute come out. that was it. he pulled out of that at about 700 feet. >> with little time to spare, he coasts to a l...
Control, 9,000 feet above the ground. and alan has another problem. the lines of the other man's chute is wrapped around his neck. >> it's what we call a wrap. your parachute is open but somebody else's parachute is wrapped around you. in that case, the person who has the parachute wrapped and you, they need to go into free fall and that takes the tension off. >> falling at nearly 50 miles an hour, the skydivers have less than two minutes before they hit the ground. the first guy manages to break free but his parachute remains behind, its lines still wrapped around alan's neck. >> the parachut...
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. >> that was it. 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 ground. >> we all gathered at the ground and he was just...
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. >> 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 the way i watched him through this ordeal. >> with the lines twisted so thick and tight, alan's problems go from bad t...