Helmet cam captures horrifying wingsuit crash into trees
BASE jumper Eric Dossantos, 30, from San Diego, California, is lucky to be alive after a horrifying wingsuit crash left him with multiple broken bones.
Dossantos was “flying” using a wingsuit at a speed of 90 mph in picturesque Chamonix, France, on Sept. 29 when he misjudged and clipped the top of a tree, sending him spinning back to earth. He later woke in a hospital after spending three hours on the forest floor until trail workers came to his rescue.
In an interview on BASE jumping site Top Gun Base, Dossantos says that everything was going pretty well in the jump, and it wasn’t until just before impact that he noticed a problem.
“It wasn’t until about the last five seconds that I felt the trees below me getting closer than I expected or wanted. Everything before that felt flyable to me,” said Dossantos.
According to a GoFundMe page setup by his friends to assist him pay with his medical bills, Dossantos suffered multiple injuries, including a scapula fracture, left neck abrasion, clavicle fracture, three left side rib fractures, head trauma and multiple lacerations.
“I should have died on a wingsuit crash in France,” Dossantos wrote on his Facebook page in early October.
