YIKES !!! A 22,000 foot free-fall with no parachute !!
YIKES !!! A 22,000 foot free-fall with no parachute !! Alan Eugene Magee (January 13, 1919 – December 20, 2003) was an American airman during World War II who survived a 22,000-foot (6,700 m) fall from his damaged B-17 Flying Fortress. He was featured in the 1981 Smithsonian Magazine as one of the 10 most amazing survival stories of World War II. ALAN'S B-17 bomber plane was hit and began to spin out of control in 1943. Alan fell out of the plane and was falling for over four miles without a parachute. He ended up crashing through the glass roof of a nearby railroad station and completely survived the accident with absolutely minimal injuries. Alan eventually lived to the age of eighty-four years old.