A woman who plummeted 15,000ft without a parachute after a skydive went horribly wrong says she remembers every second.
Emma Carey wanted to tick off something off her bucket list so headed for the Swiss Alps nine years ago.
But it very nearly and probably should have cost the Australian her life when she ran into serious trouble moments after jumping from the plane.
Her parachute became tangled - and death seemed certain as she slammed into the ground below with her hero instructor.
But she somehow survived and has even written a book about the day her life changed.
She was rushed to hospital where surgeons operated on her back and pelvis leaving her spine was broken in two places.
The horror fall left her paraplegic but she amazed doctors by walking just a year later.
She even made her catwalk debut in May at Australian Fashion Week but it's not been an easy road to recovery.
She told Sunrise: “I was never knocked unconscious. So I remember the fall, I remember landing, I remember the moment I realised I was paralysed - all of it.
“The first thing I felt when I hit the ground was just overwhelming pain in my whole body.
“I didn’t know where it was coming from, I’ve never felt anything like it.”
She went on: “I know how it feels. To think I only have ten seconds left to live and now I get the rest of my life, whatever that is, so I think it's actually really nice for me to have that memory because it helps to keep me grateful.
“Life really changed from that moment on and I also feel like every day from that date is just extra time that I get to live, so I should celebrate that.”
But in 2018 she tore a ligament in her knee as she was standing up.
She then found out she also had a tumour in the region that needed to be removed.
Emma has since written a book titled The Girl who Fell from the Sky.
She wants to inspire others and to not take life for granted
She said: “I think because I have the memory of the fall, even though it was a really traumatic thing to live through, it actually helped me because I experienced that deep sense of regret that I didn’t have much longer to live and how much I still wanted to do,” she said.
“So, when I survived, even though I was paralysed and things were hard, I felt so lucky to still be here.”
