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I honestly think this article should be considered for deletion (or should at LEAST contain a warning of some sort) since it most likely violates Wikipedia's policies. There are no credible references cited whatsoever, yet this story/potential myth, is written as if it is a historical fact.

--jp —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.183.179.196 (talk) 03:42, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm adding a 'see also' section related to other free-fallers - User:Blue Dinosaur Jr Sept 28, 2006

This story was on Mythbusters recently and was proved to be false

Actually, the Mythbusters story added the detail of a French Resistence" bombing of the rail station, something not mentioned, or in evidence, in the historical record. As the story has been corrupted (via the word-of-mouth "Telephone Game") over the years, I speculate the explosion was added, perhaps to help explain the highly unlikely survival of the airman. Check-Six 21:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is confirmed that one can survive a fall without a parachute. In fact there is at least one more WWII such story, the tail gunner of a russian Il-2 Sturmovik ground attack plane fell 1500ft onto the ice of river Danube during the 1944-1945 siege of Budapest and survived, even though his parachute was shredded apart when german cannons destroyed his plane. He survived because the plane wreck crashed before he did and its bomb load exploded upon impact, air-cushioning his landing. It is also confirmed fact that one stewardess from the DC-10 that exploded above Czech-Slovakia sometime in the 1970s survived 33,000ft of freefall without parachutes, she got entangled in a tall tree's branches and had to be "rebuilt" by doctors essentially, but eventually she recovered. Conclusion: the mustached duo messed up again 91.83.19.241 (talk) 23:55, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The glass roof gives the story plausibility. Weatherproof glass has to be rather thick and durable, and would take considerable force to break. Whatever force it took to break the glass ceiling would also break the airman's fall to some extent, reducing his velocity and the force of his eventual impact with the ground. Phonesyfreakies (talk) 06:09, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]