Lowest Death Dive escape

According to Official Guinness Records,

Robert Gallup (Australia) was leg manacled, handcuffed, chained, put into a secured mail bag and then locked in an 0.74 m² (8 ft²) cage before being thrown out of a C-123 transport plane at 5,485 m (18,000 ft) above the Mojave Desert, California, USA. With less than a minute before impact and travelling at 240 km/h (150 mph), he escaped from the sack and cage to reach his parachute secured on the outside of the cage and was able to deploy it with enough altitude to land safely.This was for a one hour FOX TV special Gallup Extreme Magic: Challenge of the Death Dive televised in 1997.

For a complete list of 1997 records, please visit 1997 Guinness Records in United States.

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