Years ago, I was flying from New London CT to Pittsburg and had to fly a puddle hopper to NY first. We hit some birds while on the runway and the plane had to be towed back in. We never made it off the ground, thankfully.
my last one was a ride through the canopy and a nylon descent from about 1600 feet
Got ya beat on the altitude but mine was out of a perfectly good C141!
I have also seen a few friends return to Terra Firma much too violently,
Right before my son got out of Ranger training they had an instructor killed during the HALO exercises due to chute failure.
You never know. That was a HALO instructor not part of the Ranger training.
Then there was the story, last week, of the guy who was taking his first tandom jump and the instructor died of a heart attack on the way down! Yikes!