fall. i am at 500 feet, and i have got a few seconds to think about what is important and say good-bye. a fellow sky diver s cell phone records stapleton as he plummets to earth. hanson races to her friend. don t move, craig. don t move. i was 100% sure that he was dead. hanson drops her helmet cam to the ground. what is your name? craig stapleton. where are you? the drop zone in the [ bleep ] wine field. amazing, stapleton is breathing and conscious. but does he have lethal internal injuries? i m allergic to penicillin and iodine. are you allergic to morphine? no. the first person to get to me was katie.
a sky diver is running out of time, and altitude. i could see my altimeter going into the red zone. the only two things that separate him from almost certain death. this was 100% unprecedented for me, and unimaginable. the parachute center in encampo, california, is open for business, weather permitting, 365 days a year. world championship sky driver greg stapleton has more than 7,000 jumps under his belt. everything can happen in a split second. it can all change in a moment s notice, so you ve got to be ready. you ve got to be on the edge. stapleton is one of an elite group doing formation sky dives which involve the risky maneuver of holding onto a fellow jumper s chute in mid air. there is probably only 500 people on the planet who do
cam captures the last jump of the day. you see a guy jump out of a plane. he sails over flat land. looks like nothing could possibly go wrong. the instructor floats towards the drop zone, an open field. the only object in sight, a trailer used to pick up the jumpers. it was like the moth to the flame. he was just drawn to that trailer. it was like, come on. there s a whole field. really he s going to hit that? hit it, he does. the sky diver injures his arm and eventually is amputated. but it hasn t stopped him from sky diving again. i ve never been sky diving. it must be that great to make it worth risking another limb. or he s crazy. or both. a camera man captures the shot of a lifetime but does he live to see it? april 2012. rubber meets the road at the bristol motor speedway in bristol, tennessee.
three, two, one! whew! oh, my god! don t try this at home. or anywhere, for that matter. oh! these are close encounters of the perilous kind. so brace yourself. you re about to enter the danger zone. a wide open field, a trailer, and a sky diver trying to avoid it. he had eyes on that trailer the entire way down and that s exactly where he landed. april 2011. 4,000 feet above colorado s fremont county airport, a sky diver s instructor s helmet
all those parachutes for subsequent jumps. so event organizers provide packers. enthusiasts who pack chutes quickly for a small fee. on the third day of the festival norman plans a group jump with three colleagues, including veteran sky diver orlando. orlando was actually a tandem master by the time i met him. it s the guy when you go for the first time, they attach to you, and they re the ones that actually take you for a ride. orlando s experience should be an asset for the group jump. but when it s time to board the plane, the packers haven t completed orlando s chute. he rushes the packer through the process so he can take off with his buddies. it s a decision he is about to regret.