WATCH: US Skydiver Freefalls from 7 km - into a Net

Safety tests on the net that would catch Luke Aikins indicated that the risk-motivated American skydiver might not survive the seven kilometer jump without a parachute. To come out alive, he need to navigate throwing himself from a plane above California's Simi Valley on Saturday, reaching terminal velocity (193 km/hour) in a belly-to-earth fall that lasted about two minutes, and land inside the 30 meter by 30 meter net awaiting him just above the desert floor. "If I wasn’t...

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