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    What is the highest altitude a person successfully parachuted from?

    Question #63364. Asked by mediamike.

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    1960 Joeseph Kittinger: 102,800 ft.


    http://www.parachutehistory.com/skydive/records/highalt/index.html

    http://www.parachutehistory.com/skydive/records/highalt/index.html


    *A jump from 102,800 feet by U.S. Col. Joseph Kittinger in 1960 was disqualified by the FAI, because he used a stabilizing drogue.

    http://www.uspa.org/competition/records.htm

    It is still a record!


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    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.



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    The longest delayed skydive was made by Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, who dropped 25,820 m (84,700 ft) from a balloon at Tularosa, New Mexico, USA, on August 16, 1960. He fell for 4 min 37 sec before his parachute was deployed automatically.


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