He apparently had survived the fall out of the airplane with the use of a parachute.
One of the unusual experiments in which Breese was involved, concerned the use of a parachute for an aircraft, successfully demonstrating the device in 1930.
How Running Parachutes Work You don't have to tumble out of an airplane to make good use of a parachute.
In the resolution at the beginning of chapter fifteen, Gentry is replaced by an animation which shows him escaping death by use of a parachute hidden under his jacket.
The only curiosity among them was the last pilot downed plummeted to his death in one of the pioneering uses of a parachute; that was on 16 September 1918.
A feature in the landing system allows the use of a single parachute and "braking rocket," thus the heatshield is dropped from the spacecraft similar to the landing bag deployment on the U.S. Mercury spacecraft.
This form of flying involves the use of a parachute to jump from fixed objects such as buildings, towers and bridges, and natural formations such as cliffs.
Control was achieved through the use of an inertial reference unit, four gyros, a parachute, a radar altimeter, a terminal descent and landing radar, and the control thrusters.
He also introduced the use of a parachute to stop the car, since unlike the piston engines, the jet engine did not provide braking when shut off.