stackyFACTSDuring a massive mid-air emergency, a man was violently blown out of his bomber aircraft without a parachute from 18,000 feet up. He miraculously crashed directly through the glass roof of a train station, landing mostly unharmed. Gravity apparently just forgot how to do its job that day.
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