SMASH! Base jumper nearly dies after botched jump

Описание: BASE jumper Chad Smith told yesterday how he cheated death after botching a leap off the White Cliffs of Dover and plunging 180ft on to rocks.

Extraordinary footage from his helmet camera shows him going into a face-first freefall, before his parachute opens at the last moment.

Horrified pals also filmed the thrill-seeker as he tumbled the height of 11 London buses.

Chad, 27, said: “I was so concerned about getting a good push off I messed up the pilot chute and threw it down instead of up.As soon as I jumped I knew it had gone wrong. I thought I was going to die.

“It was three seconds between jumping and hitting the rocks. The ground was coming towards me when it shouldn’t. My parachute finally opened just before I hit the ground. If it hadn’t then I would have died. If the drop had been a couple of feet less I would be dead. I was milliseconds from death.”

Chad, of Maidstone, Kent, suffered four broken vertebrae and broken pelvis. He was winched by helicopter coastguards to the top of the cliffs...

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