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BASE jumper leaps off cliff but chute fails to open

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by sweet east pearl | June 16, 2008 at 05:51 pm

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POLICE have seized graphic video showing the moment a BASE jumper's parachute fails to open in a near-fatal plunge.

The Port Douglas chef and experienced skydiver with hundreds of jumps under his belt, miraculously survived the 305m fall off Australia's highest sheer waterfall and is in a critical condition in Townsville Base Hospital.

Incredibly, thrillseeker Hamish McCorkindale survived another jumping mishap earlier this year and a video of the incident was posted on YouTube (see right

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