parachute jumps

[eupraxia]

Not sure if I have this in the right place but its a two in one.

What has been the highest ever recorded parachute jump and what was the highest recorded jump where the parachute did not open and the jumper survived.

Thanks for your time.

Eipraxia

[kempie]

Highest recorded parachute jump from 102,800 ft by John Kittinger in 1960.

[kempie]

* JOE Kittinger

[THECORBYLOON]

Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Yugoslavia, survived a fall from 10,160 m (33,330 ft) when the DC-9 airplane she was traveling in blew up over Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), on January 26, 1972. A terrorist bomb was thought to be the cause, and no other passengers survived. Vesna broke both legs and was temporarily paralyzed from the waist down.
From http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=43941

[sddsddean]

There is also the story of an RAF Lancaster rear gunner who bailed out of his burning aircraft without a 'chute (as he thought he would rather die from falling than burning!) at about 15000 feet, had his fall broken by trees and landed in a snow drift and suffered only a broken ankle. It took him a long while to convince the German soldiers that this is what had happened.

[brachiopod]

Note to self - must read things more carefully in future.

I mis-read that as "at about 15000 fet [he] had his fall broken by trees..." and was thinking that they were bloody tall trees, deano !!