Canon EOS Rebel XT spits in gravity's face, survives 3,000-foot drop?

Picture this: you're a skydive instructor with a makeshift helmet apparatus for taking stills and video of your feats. Suddenly, about 3,000 feet from above the ground, your photography mount decides to take its own flight pattern and sets off without you. That apparently happened to a friend of FredMiranda forum member Calin Leucuta, who calculates the velocity at impact was approximately 100 miles per hour. After a 15- to 20-minute search after landing, the video camera was found to be without saving... but the Canon Rebel XT for still was still functional despite a crack in the body and some jerkiness with the zoom lens. We're still hesitant to take it at face value -- it's a pretty wild and impressive tale, after all -- but video is reportedly on the way and we'd definitely like to see that footage remove all lingering doubt from our minds. More pics of the aftermath past the read link.

[Pies Posted Dec 16th 2009 1:33PM]

No scratches and no dents on the awfully dirty Canon, yet the totaled Sony video camera has not a single grain of sand on it. Sure.

[whoopn Posted Dec 16th 2009 1:56PM]

Es Impossible!

Seriously 100MPH? All objects will fall at terminal velocity (and then subtract speed due to wind resistance) of 32ft/second. This means approximately 21.81 Miles/Hour, not 100MPH. Unless of course I'm missing something, in which case please show me your proof.

[whoopn Posted Dec 16th 2009 1:59PM]

@whoopn
Wait I'm stupid..ignore that.

[matttinsley Posted Dec 16th 2009 2:50PM]

They seem to have failed to mention that the Rebel XT doesn't record video.

[eritter Posted Dec 16th 2009 3:41PM]

@matttinsley
What they failed to mention that the Rebel and a video camera were mounted on the skydivers helmet. What he lost in flight was the helmet.
Maybe the video camera impacted first and saved the Rebel.

[vqro Posted Dec 16th 2009 3:47PM]

FAKE!

No damn way it would survive a 3000 foot drop. No damn way!