What is the farthest a human can fall without dying?

There is no specific distance from which a person can fall and have it said they will survive or not survive. There are simply too many variables that will dominate the factor of distance. In 1971, flight attendant Vesna Vulovic fell 10,160 meters (~33,300 ft) and survived without a parachute.



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There have been some incredible instances of people falling out of airplanes without parachutes and surviving. Take the story of Alan Magee, an American airman who survived a 22,000-foot fall from a damaged B-17 bomber over France in 1943.

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Even if you enter feet-first in a straight, vertical line, and like a pencil, that impact can be strong enough to compress your spine, break bones, or give you a concussion. The force of the water can knock people unconscious on impact, and even if you survive, you may drown.

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And so initially, when we hit the ground with our foot, this spring compresses and so the force increases quite a bit, and we have the first force hump. And then we have a rebound. So the spring relaxes again, our whole body moves up and we fall back into the spring.

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