Simon Mayo

His injuries from the fall itself amounted to...

amounted to a sprained knee.

His improbable escape led the Germans to think he was a spy until the wreckage was found and he gained some celebrity as an inmate in the notorious Stalag Luft III.

His captors even made him a certificate to prove his account, a quite remarkable story that deserves repeating.

So it's fair to say that in general, if you fall from a greater height and land in a tree, it's not good.

However, for Nicholas Alkmaid, even though he was in tragic circumstances, imagine falling that distance, landing in a tree and spraining your knee.

And Jimmy says, a couple of weeks ago, a listener wrote in about unrealistic movie moments and their real world consequences, including how falling from a great height into a tree is very unlikely to save your life.

That immediately caught my attention as I'm currently reading How I Fell from the Sky by Juliana Kupka.

Tells the extraordinary true story of Lancer Flight 508, which broke up midair over the Amazon after being struck by lightning.

julianne julianne describes leaving the plane till strapped still strapped to her seat seeing the jungle spinning below and crashing into the rainforest despite serious injuries she survived alone for nearly two weeks before being found helped by survival skills she'd learned through her parents conservation work in the rainforest a kind of a setup that if that was in a movie you'd think no i don't think i'm going to believe that the book also mentions a

He also contributes a perfectly Herzogian blurb to the book, which is...

She didn't leave the aeroplane.

The aeroplane left her.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned on the show.

I'm a bit behind.

Anyway, so in general, I think that the rule is still a good one, which is don't fall from great heights and land in a tree because it won't do you any good.

However, obviously, there are exceptions to most rules.

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