Dropping in! Parachutist slams into parking garage and is left dangling 40 feet in the air with a broken ankle – but what was he doing jumping from a plane at 2am over downtown Cleveland?
- On Sunday around 2am a 35-year-old man jumped with a parachute into downtown Cleveland and crashed into a parking garage, breaking his ankle
- The man claimed he jumped from a plane with friends, but witnesses says he base jumped off a nearby high-rise building
- His parachute caught a gust of wind and he was pushed into the parking garage with a sickening slam and left tangled, suspended 40 feet above the ground
- He was rescued by the Cleveland Fire Department
Shocking video footage has emerged of the moment a bold adrenaline-junkie takes a jump in Ohio, crashes into a parking garage and is left perilously dangling 40 feet above ground.
The incident took place on Sunday around 2am when a 35-year-old man jumped with four others, but his descent took a turn for the worst when he slammed into a parking garage in downtown Cleveland.
Cleveland Firefighters were called to the intersection of East 12th Street and Chester Avenue around 2am where they found the man handing from the parking garage entangled in his parachute, according to WKYC.
The man said his friends safely landed in a nearby park but he ended up crashing after his parachute was blown by a gust of wind.
Shocking video footage has emerged of the moment a bold skydiver takes a jump in Ohio, crashes into a parking garage and is left perilously dangling 40 feet above ground
The 35-year-old man’s parachute pictured being pushed by the wind towards the parking garage early Sunday morning
Crash: The man crashed into the wall of the parking garage with a sickening slam and his parachute got caught on the roof of the building, leaving him tangled and dangling 40 feet above the ground
He was left approximately 40 feet in the air and fire crews rescued him by using a ladder to untangle him from the parachute.
He was transported to the Metro Health hospital with a broken ankle.
Video of the fall was captured by a pedestrian who saw the man and his parachute floating down into the street when he hit the parking garage with a sickening sound.
‘Look at bruh tho…oh damn! Oh he’s stuck…we gotta help him,’ a man filming the incident yelps.
The man’s parachute was visible stuck on the roof of the parking garage, leaving him helplessly dangling and clinging onto the wall of the garage for dear life.
The man pictured clinging onto the wall of the parking garage for dear life after the crash
Now officials are investigating where the man actually jumped from.
He claimed he and his pals jumped off a plane, but locals say he jumped off a nearby building.
Cleveland Fire Lt. Mike Norman said a group of four people were base jumping, which is jumping off tall buildings or hilltops with a parachute.
Witnesses say the group jumped from the roof of The Luckman apartment building, according to Cleveland19.
Cleveland Firefighters were called to the intersection of East 12th Street and Chester Avenue around 2am where they found the man handing from the parking garage entangled in his parachute
‘I’ve heard of people base jumping sure, but not off of my apartment building. You could tell the man was in pain, he was just sitting there holding on, trying to wait it out because help was on the way,’ witness Patrick O’Shea said.
Locals say the man was lucky his parachute got caught on the roof of the parking garage.
‘Oh absolutely, if that parachute didn’t get stuck on the building he would have just kind of hit the wall and dropped. That wouldn’t have been pretty,’ O’Shea said.