mouth. a sky dive goes horribly wrong. a life literally hangs in the balance. we knew that the odds of someone surviving what andy was going through were possibly not good. extreme skiing becomes extremely scary. it was just horrendous. you just felt it was going to be a miracle not to lose your daughter. they are risk takers, they are thrill seekers, they have no fear. caught on camera: daredevils. they live on the edge. they re addicted to adrenaline. they re daredevils and they re constantly pushing the limits to go faster and farther and higher than anyone else. but sometimes the rush is replaced by a jolt of pure terror.ç that s what happened to andy judy, a skydiver who ended up at 10,000 feet in a fight for his
of grass cleaned meticulously. we lined people up to pick up anything that might possibly harm andy striking the ground. then we called the pilot and asked him to bring him in. as the plane approaches, don turns to andy s dad. we embraced. it was very heartfelt. we talked about the fact we were confident andy was going to be okay. both of us knowing that that probably wasn t going to be the case. the men can t communicate with andy. but he begins to understand the plan. the ground was coming up at me, so i realized that we were going to land. i was honestly more exhausted emotionally, physically, mentally than i have ever been in my life and i was ready to deal with whatever the consequences were. i said to the pilot, make this the shortest and softest landing of your life. just before impact, andy
shows enormous strength, tucking his legs up, contorting himself into a fetal position and bracing for the worst. and then he struck the ground. that s when you quit breathing. a cloud of dust, then we all rushed the aircraft. even though i was running flat out to see andy after the i didn t think anybody could survive that. but as don and andy s dad reached the now stopped plane, against all odds i opened my eyes. and my first words to them was, god, i m lucky. yeah, he was. it was incredible. andy s rushed to the hospital and miraculously, doctors find no major injuries. he s released and walks out with only minor scrapes and bruises. one lucky guy indeed. amazingly, he s back skydiving just three weeks later. people always say live every
but i immediately slipped off. i kept trying to climb back up. with each failed attempt, andy gets more and more discouraged. as time progressed, that s ç when the sense of hopelessness or the sense of, this is not going to work. i m not going to get out of this situation. that s when the fear intensified. by now, andy has been hanging upside down for an unbelievable 40 minutes, and time is not on his side. the jump suit somehow began to constrict around my upper leg. i can t think of another point in my life where i experienced more pain. i remember having thoughts of, am i going to lose my leg? on the ground, don and andy s dad, tim, are still trying to figure out the best plan to get andy down safely. the plane was going to land. the pilot was going to have to put it down. we were running out of fuel and it was time to make the serious decision. don knows what has to happen. he knows it could mean death for his friend, but he makes the most difficult decision of his
in my life where i experienced more pain. i remember having thoughts of, am i going to lose my leg? on the ground, don and andy s dad, tim, are still trying to figure out the best plan to get andy down safely. the plane was going to land. the pilot was going to have to put it down. they were running out of fuel and it was time to make the serious decision. don knows what has to happen. he knows it could mean death for his friend, but he makes the most difficult decision of his life. at this point, i brought tim back into the office and explained i was going to land the aircraft with his son underneath it. and he pretty much said, no, you re not. after a bit of talking, between the both of us, it was a teary moment, but we decided that that had to happen. andy doesn t know about the plan but he does sense that an end, good or bad, has to be near and prepares himself. i guess whenever you re faced