Jumping out of a plane from 25,000 feet with no parachute may be unthinkable to most people except US citizen Luke Aikins. He had in 2016 become the first person to do so and land safely in a net.
A video of the two-minute fall has resurfaced on Twitter and is now viral. The tweet was even liked by the richest person in the world, Elon Musk.
Have you ever seen a man jump out of a plane from 25,000 feet with no parachute and then land in a massive net on Earth?Now you have. pic.twitter.com/6bBZk8vHD6
— Pomp (@APompliano) August 18, 2022
The video, which was originally aired live on Fox television in 2016, showed the 42-year-old fall into the centre of a 100 x 100 foot net in southern California's Simi Valley.
Skydiver Luke Aikins celebrates with son Logan after jumping 25,000 feet from an airplane without a parachute.
The clip on Twitter has been viewed almost 6 million times. Here's how users reacted to the video:
psh i do this all the time, in GTA V— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) August 18, 2022
Bit too close to the edge for me. Amazing effort. Big balls to do that, and a tad of crazy— Tom Sublime (@sublime_tom) August 18, 2022
Speaking to BBC after the jump, Luke Aikins -- a safety and training adviser for the US Parachute Association -- had admitted that he had to nearly cancel the stunt because he was made to wear a parachute for safety, but the extra weight would have made his landing more dangerous. The organisers had, however, let him go ahead without the parachute just minutes before the jump.
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