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A skydiver broke free and ultimately survived after his reserve parachute accidentally deployed and got stuck on the tail of an airplane as it was soaring through the sky.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau explained that the “reserve handle snagged on the aircraft’s flap, resulting in deployment of the reserve parachute.”

Video footage of the harrowing incident — which occurred in September — shows the parachute deploying, with the man flying into the aircraft’s tail and then dangling from the plane because the chute got stuck.

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“The reserve parachute wrapped around the left horizontal stabiliser and elevator and deflated as” the skydiver’s “low

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