Skydiver who survived 10,000ft fall after being knocked out mid-jump 'can't wait to get back to it'

Skydiver who survived 10,000ft fall after being knocked out mid-jump 'can't wait to get back to it' Holly Wiffen was completing a 12,000ft group jump above Langar airfield, near Nottingham, last month when she collided with another skydiver in a freak accident, knocking her unconscious A skydiver who survived a 10,00ft freefall after colliding with a fellow jumper mid-air has opened up about her terrifying ordeal. Holly Wiffen, 35, was taking part in a group jump from 12,000ft last month where they were carrying out an experience called 'tracking' - where jumpers dive in a horizontal position to fall faster. But just moments after leaping from the plane above Langar airfield, near Nottingham, she was hit in the head by the leg of another skydiver. She was knocked unconscious as she plummeted through the sky with no open parachute, falling 10,000ft at speeds of up to 150mph before she managed to come to and deploy her parachute just seconds before she crashed into a tree. Despite her horrific experience she said she "can't wait to get back" to skydiving. The dental therapist from Okehampton, Devon, spoke to This Morning yesterday where she opened up about her near-fatal experience and the chilling footage that captured her fall. She admitted: "It feels really strange to watch it. "It doesn't really feel like me, I mean I know it's me because I have my gangly legs and arms flailing around, but it doesn't really look like me. It's really strange watching it, it's kind of surreal." Holly said she'd already done three jumps that day, and said the fateful day of August 7 was "like every other skydiving day". She said she had a safety briefing before being put into her group where they talked through the jump they had planned. She said she "did three jumps" and they were "really good" and that she was "having a great day". But, then on the fourth jump things went wrong. Holly said: "It's just one of those things, it's just an accident, just like a misjudgement of speed. I was just sort of wrong place, wrong time really, and we kind of moved together and just collided." As Holly plummeted toward the ground unconscious, one of her fellow skydivers attempted to reach her and intervene. She explained: "He saw that I'd been knocked, that we'd collided, and then realised that I'd tumbled past and wanted to check that I was ok, so he chased me down." She said that as soon as she collided with the other jumper she was immediately knocked unconscious, saying: "It was instant. It just went black, I don't even remember even leaving the plane, and I just was dreaming of falling. It was just really surreal, I just thought 'I'm falling and I'm dreaming about falling'. It was just kind of peaceful. But then I kind of felt like I was a bit unstable and then in my mind I was thinking back to my training, 'right if I'm falling and unstable I should be arching, trying to reach my parachute'. And you can see in the clip that's what's kind of happening, but I was out, I was asleep." It wasn't until Holly was just 1,000ft from the ground that instinct kicked in, breaking her out of her dreamlike state and she was able to deploy her parachute. She recalled: "I deployed my main parachute, somehow, but I was still falling too fast so my emergency device, my AAD, kicked in and threw my reserve out as well which saved my life really." Despite Holly's main and reserve parachute being deployed, she said she got "really unlucky" as it actually sped her up. But she added: "Luckily, subconsciously maybe or maybe someone was looking out for me, and I landed in a tree, which I think helped." She said she can't remember how long after landing in the tree she woke up, but added: "I just remember waking up and looking up and seeing my reserve canopy in the tree, and I was like 'oh that's what I was dreaming about, I was skydiving'. It was so strange." Holly suffered a broken leg and fractured spine as a result of her crash landing, but said she was not in any pain when she came to. though she admitted "maybe it was shock." She said: "I just looked down and thought, 'right, so there's my reserve canopy I must have been skydiving, I've still got my kit on'. "So I get my kit off, because if I've done something bad the paramedics are going to cut my stuff off me and it's very expensive. And I looked down and thought 'right, let's do a full body check'. So I checked everything, and no pain, I saw my leg to one side, and I saw the break and I thought 'that's broken, let's ignore that'. But I could wiggle my toes, my back was a bit stiff, but really it didn't feel like I'd done anything. I was making jokes apparently when they found me about wanting to jump again and not being able to jump and it had ruined my day..." Having no recollection of her fall, Holly has now heard from fellow skydivers who witnessed her terrifying ordeal, who said she was "limp" in her harness which flagged to them that something was wrong. Holly was left with a broken tibia and fibula and a "tiny little fracture" in her spine as well as some bruising. Asked how she feels about skydiving after her ordeal, Holly said: "I can't wait to get back, honestly. If they let me do a tandem now I would be in the sky, I can't wait to back, I just love it so much." And she even has the support of her mum. "My mum gets it. I jump at this little family run drop zone called Skydive Southwest, it's the best place ever, and my mum comes for picnics, just loves it there so much as well," she said. "So she turns up one day for a picnic, and next thing she's doing a tandem because I'm like 'You're doing it, it's happening, you need to understand what I'm doing.' And she loved it so much and she got down and she was so excited and she said 'I get it now, I absolutely get it.' Everyone should do a skydive because you just don't know the feeling until you do it." And it won't be long until Holly is back at it, as she admitted she's got a trip to Spain booked around Christmas and is crossing her fingers she'll be able to skydive while there. She admitted there may be some apprehension but she plans to start jumping with a friend before ramping back up to the big jumps.