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THE last seconds as a skydiver comes tumbling out of the sky to his death have been captured in heart-stopping footage.

The video shows the skydiver leap from the plane, falling towards the ground at break-neck speed in a tragic fall that ultimately claims his life.

 The reserve's lines can be seen to be hopelessly entangled
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The reserve's lines can be seen to be hopelessly entangled
 The skydiver desperately tries to manoeuvre the parachute above him but is unable to as he falls towards earth
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The skydiver desperately tries to manoeuvre the parachute above him but is unable to as he falls towards earth
 The horrifying jump of a skydiver whose parachute failed is caught on his head-cam
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The horrifying jump of a skydiver whose parachute failed is caught on his head-cam

At the beginning of the footage, the daredevil can be seen throwing himself from the plane but barely 30 seconds in the skydiver tries to release his parachute and finds the lines hopelessly tangled.

In the dizzying head-cam footage, the skydiver is thrown to and fro in the air as he desperately tries to control the blue and white parachute.

The 36-year-old then tries to throw his second parachute but it appears to be similarly tangled, forcing him to try to untangle the lines.

In the last moments of the video, he can be heard to cry out in fear.

The man was rushed to hospital but died in the ambulance.

 The man's fateful fall is caught on his headcam
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The man's fateful fall is caught on his headcam
 The lines become entangled with the man heard to cry out in fear in the last seconds of the video
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The lines become entangled with the man heard to cry out in fear in the last seconds of the video
 It is unclear how high the skydiver jumped from as he prepares to jump from the plane
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It is unclear how high the skydiver jumped from as he prepares to jump from the plane

The skydiver is understood to have jumped out over the Gatchina district in the Leningrad region with the fateful incident taking place on August 5.

It is believed he jumped out over the village of Nikolskoye.

It has been reported that the man jumped from the Novgorod DOSAAF plane.

Saint-Petersburg authorities are now investigating the man's death.


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