--- description: "We knew something wasn't quite right," a witness said title: Watch a Soldier Get Saved in Midair After His Parachute Fails to Open image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Accident](/tag/accident/) ## Accident Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch a Soldier Get Saved in Midair After His Parachute Fails to Open by [Alastair Jamieson/NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alastair Jamieson/NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 20, 2015 12:03 PM CUT by [Alastair Jamieson/NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alastair Jamieson/NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 20, 2015 12:03 PM CUT A military parachutist was saved in mid-air by a fellow soldier after his chute failed to open in front of thousands of spectators at a British airshow Friday. The drama was caught on camera by onlookers as the British Army’s Red Devil display team performed at the Whitehaven Air Show in Cumbria, northern England. One of the men grabbed his teammate’s parachute ropes and helped guide him safely into a nearby dock. Both were unharmed. “We knew something wasn’t quite right, that’s when the other guy started intertwining himself around the guy whose parachute hadn’t opened,” eyewitness Liam Benson told… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/parachutist-saved-mid-air-chute-fails-open-airshow-n378966?cid=par-time-article%5F20150620 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3929250/soldier-parachute-saved/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3929250/soldier-parachute-saved/"},"headline":"Watch a Soldier Get Saved in Midair After His Parachute Fails to Open","datePublished":"2015-06-20T12:03:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:23:01.985Z","description":"\"We knew something wasn't quite right\"","url":"https://time.com/3929250/soldier-parachute-saved/","keywords":["Accident"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alastair Jamieson/NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/accident/","name":"Accident"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3929250/soldier-parachute-saved/","name":"Watch a Soldier Get Saved in Midair After His Parachute Fails to Open"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Ways You Know You're Watching a Spielberg Movie","description":"Like any director who has worked as long as he has — 26 films over almost 40 years — Steven Spielberg has both stylistic and thematic tics that pop up again and again in his work. Here are five","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/azCjjc4c/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2011-12-30T21:52:24.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/azCjjc4c.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3929250/soldier-parachute-saved/","duration":"PT4M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3929250/soldier-parachute-saved/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```