Barnstorming was popular in the Jazz Age — bold wing-walkers dazzling onlookers from the ground with their brass and their cloud-sprinkled moxie, dancing on top of a goddamn moving aircraft. But that was America. In the 1920s.
This is Lima, Peru — in 2015. And Fernando Gava never intended to do anything that out of the ordinary. He was merely planning on skydiving — a risky yet fashionable behavior — on a sunny, cloudless day, at 10,000 feet in the air, when right after he attempted to jump from the plane he … got his pant leg stuck on one of the exit steps.
At that point, Gava was dangling from 10,000 feet in the air. From a moving plane. While a bunch of his friends below watch it all unfold.
Thankfully for the world, one of them had a camera (the video is below).
Thankfully for Gava?
He cut himself loose with a knife while hanging upside down and eventually parachuted back down to Mother Earth, safe and sound (he nicked his hand a little bit wit the blade, but that was it).
See it: