On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:20:42 -0700, "Steve Daniels, Seek of Spam"
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 05:54:11 GMT, something compelled
(Steven Shelikoff), to say:

I'd think that 100% of the people who fall out of an airplane without a
parachute will die.

I fell out of a plane and lived to tell about it.

Ok, it was tied to the ground and the drop was about two and a
half feet, but still.

And for Navy egress training I've had to slide down the wing of an
airplane and jump off to the ground. The flaps were lowered so it was
only maybe a 5 foot drop. So ammend my statement to say "flying" before
airplane. And no, ultralights, paraplanes, helicopters and autogyros
don't count as airplanes.

Like a parachute for an airplane on the ground, a PFD won't help very
much if you fall off a boat that's in the driveway on a trailer. Ok,
well it may help break the landing a little..

Steve