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Originally Posted by Prince Charon
There was one person who fell out of an aeroplane without a parachute during WWII, who apparently survived because he was at exactly the right distance above a bomb going off that it slowed his fall by just the right amount. Blanking on the source, though it fits a cinematic setting even if I can't be totally sure that it really happened.
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There are known cases of people falling out of airplanes and living, the one I remember involved tree branches and a snow bank. A bomb could slow someone down (assuming it didn't kill them), but would have the unfortunate side effect of likely clearing soft material from the landing area.