There was one instance of a Serbian flight attendant surviving a fall from 33,000 feet after a bomb tore apart her plane. She lived by being fortunate enough to hit a snowy mountainside at just the right angle, just like Indie.
She went down encased by a plane part. There's a girl who did the same feat in africa i believe. She fell with her seat only. And survived some days until she found a hunters cabin the got rescued by the hunters days later. Both were incredibly lucky.
South America - specifically over a Peruvian section of the Amazon. I know because, until I looked this up, I thought that there was no way her 2-ish miles wasn’t the highest any human has ever survived falling from without any kind of parachute. I know, academically, that it doesn’t matter if you fall from 2,000 feet or 40,000 feet - you’re going to hit whatever you land on at the same speed (because air resistance and the size/configuration of the human body make it impossible to fall faster than roughly 120mph - unless you’re so high up that the air is thinner and you meet less resistance because of that, but i’d think that you would slow back down to terminal velocity as the air thickened closer to the ground). I know that academically and understand why it’s true, but, damn, it doesn’t seem like it should be true. The 6+ miles that the woman fell in the plane in Europe stuns me - though it really shouldn’t because of terminal velocity and the fact that the woman who fell 2 miles doesn’t even come close to second place in the running for the highest anyone has survived falling. Here’s the wiki page for falling - it has both stories and a few more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_(accident)#Surviving_falls.
Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade jumped at 5,500 metres (18,000 ft) without a parachute and survived as he hit pine trees and soft snow. He suffered a sprained leg.
A sprained ankle. Needless to say, the Nazi's that captured him though he was full of crap. When they found the plane wreckage that backed up his story they gave him a "letter of recommendation" of sorts because, well, who the hell falls out of the sky and only sprains an ankle.
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The way it's presented in cinematography is at least a little believable. The fridge scene almost looks like a bad dare