I don’t want to be a spoilsport but he is not the first person to land without a chute. Gravity demands that everybody in that situation, land. During WWII there were several instances where crewmen jumped without parachutes, rather than burn up in their doomed plane
Alan Magee a gunner on a B-17 fell 22,000 feet without a parachute. He survived and wound up in a POW camp.
Flight Officer Nicolas Alkemade fell 18,000 feet when his Lancaster bomber was shot down. He also survived.
I guess that is what happens when a reporter never looks past his nose, every day is a new day.
Skydiver becomes first person to jump and land without chute
JOHN ROGERS,Associated Press 6 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After leaping from an airplane, Luke Aikins rocketed toward earth for two minutes, and then calmly flipped onto his back at the last second and landed in a 100-by-100-foot net in California.