Skydiver plummets after midair collision
Two skydivers collided midair in Florida knocking one of the men unconscious. An automatic deploying device for his reserve chute activated and saved his life. CNN affiliate WFTS reports.Sebastian Leal, 23, jumped out of a plane above Zephyrhills, Florida in his 402nd jump, he said in a press conference at Tampa General Hospital on Wednesday. He descended from 14,500 feet. skydiving, is a method of exiting an aircraft and returning to Earth with the aid of gravity, then slowing down during the last part of the descent by using a parachute. It may involve more or less free-fall, a time during which the parachute has not been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal velocity.
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